Category: Africa
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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 of…
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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 und…
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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. …
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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 is…
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Day 17: The other side of Africa
Without much words: Townships at the Eastern Cape, South Africa —- Ohne große Erklärung: Fotos von Townships am Eastern Cape, South Africa
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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 Corridor…
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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 be…
Jessica Holzhausen - Writer & Artist 