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One of the places I wanted to visit the most was the Cape of Good Hope, which is the...

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The Cape Peninsula, which is surprisingly quite far south of Cape Town, is a protected national...

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A stone map of the Cape, with the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom and Cape Town directly above it near the top.

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The drive from Cape Town down to the actual Cape is one of the most beautiful in the world-- the...

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When I was here the last time, the Efftings took me up Chapman's peak, which sits just across Hout...

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In 1652, a group of explorers from the Dutch East India Company, led by Jan van Riebeeck, landed at...

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Another photo of the gardens, with the slopes of Table Mountain in the back.

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Entrance at Gate 2 of the Gardens.

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To get around to the various tourist sites, the City of Cape Town has set up this really...

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As I mentioned, the Dutch East India Company (or VOC, Vereenigde Oost-Indisch Compagnie, in Dutch)...

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Didn't get a chance to go here, but this located along the Company Gardens walk.

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The Dutch were heavily dependent upon slave labor in their empire worldwide, but only about...

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Exterior of the Slave Lodge, looking west toward Adderly Street.

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One of the things I had read about beforehand was the "high tea" at the Mount Nelson...

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View of the old Cape Town City Hall, where Nelson Mandela gave his first speech as a free man after...

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View of Table Mountain from the Castle of Good Hope

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