Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Land of Contrast : South Africa

South Africa is a gorgeous country....it has everything from mountains to beaches.... oceans to lagoons..... & penguins to lions. While our stay here we got to see a wide array of natural landscape. Till date I thought Switzerland was the most beautiful as it has a wide green landscape but now I can say SA is equally good.

Here we visited the sites of Table Mountain, which is located right in the middle of the city or may be the city of Cape Town was developed around it as it's said that the Table Mountain is 6 times older than the Himalayas. Took hikes up the Cape Point & Cape of Good Hope & got to see the merge of the Indian & Atlantic oceans. During our stay at Knysna, which is a lagoon town, Vinay did the bungee jumping while I stayed at bay ;) Here we also saw the mouth of Storm river meeting with the Atlantic . The most amazing thing for me was to see the oceans right next to the mountains. Simply laying by the shore & watch the waves splash against the rocks felt so blissful . Luckily we also got to see whales & dolphins right by the shore.

I would definitely like to come back to the country someday !!!



12 Apostles
 



The Famous Table Mountain


Atop Table Mountain & Lion's Head Mountain in the back


Flat Table top

 


Cape of Good Hope



5, 4, 3, 2,  Bungee !!!!
Dry grasslands

Empty roads of SA

Loved the colorful houses at the beach

Knysna, the lagoon town

Lighthouse at Cape Point


1 comment:

  1. wow !! counting days to our trip to SA now...any special recos on Cape Town/Knysna/Oudtshoorn?

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