Category Archives: Africa

Day 21: Red Location Museum

  Even though it has been a few days since I visited the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth I do only today find the time to write about it. Situated in the centre of the New Brighton Township the museum documents the time of Apartheid at the Eastern Cape. Sadly due to redesign ofContinue reading “Day 21: Red Location Museum”

Day 20: Travel plans

On Monday I will start on a nine days trip from Port Elizabeth along the coast to Cape Town and from there via Stellenbosch and through the Karoo back to Port Elizabeth. This is the route: — Am Montag geht es neun Tage auf Rundreise von Port Elizabeth immer die Küste entlang bis Kapstadt undContinue reading “Day 20: Travel plans”

Day 18: Mandela Day (Deutsche Version)

Heute ist Nelson Mandelas Geburtstag, in Südafrika heißt das Mandela Tag, oder nach seinem Xhosa Ehrennamen: Madiba Tag. Und obwohl die Medien ebenso wie das Präsidentenamt in den vergangenen Tagen vergleichsweise ruhig waren mit Meldungen über Mandelas Gesundheitszustand, gab es pünktlich zu seinem 95. Geburtstag eine gute Nachricht: Nelson Mandelas Gesundheitszustand verbessere sich kontinuierlich.  Continue reading “Day 18: Mandela Day (Deutsche Version)”

Day 18: Mandela Day

Today is the birthday of Nelson Mandela, Mandela Day, or according to his tribal honorary title: Madiba Day. And even though the media as well as the South African presidency were relatively quite about Mandela’s health condition the last days, punctually to his 95th birthday today they released the good news: Nelson Mandela’s health isContinue reading “Day 18: Mandela Day”

Day 15: Wildlife

Camdeboo National Park   Why including two different national parks in one blog entry? Not only because I travelled there the last weekend, but also because there is the pretentious plan to once connect both parks with a grassland conservation zone. Today the two parks already work together in the Mountain Zebra – Camdeboo CorridorContinue reading “Day 15: Wildlife”

Day 14: Valley of Desolation

  One of the geographical highlights at the Eastern Cape is the Valley of Desolation, which is today part of the Camdeboo National Park. The entrance can be reached by car from Graaff-Reinet in approximately ten minutes. From there on follows a steep road up into the mountains. The last 1.1 kilometres have to beContinue reading “Day 14: Valley of Desolation”