Day 69 – Apr. 15 Walvis Bay, Namibia
Walvis Bay is the only sheltered deep water port on Africa’s dangerous ‘Skeleton Coast’, so named for the number of ship wrecks along the coast. …
Day 67 – Apr. 13 Cape Town, South Africa (Day 2)
Robben Island sits in Cape Town’s Table Bay. Originally it was habitat for avast numbers of Cape Seals (the name is derived from the Dutch…
Day 66 – Apr. 12 Cape Town, South Africa (Day 1)
Our second tour in South Africa was intended to give us an over view of the topography of Cape Town … from the shore at…
Day 64 – Apr. 10 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Long before boarding the Queen Victoria, we booked three tours, all in South Africa. The first was a safari outside Port Elizabeth. After clearing immigration,…
Day 60 – Apr. 06 Reunion Island, French Department
Reunion is a Department of France, meaning it is French soil just as Hawaii is American. Its largest city is St. Denis with a population…
Day 59 – Apr. 05 Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius
The beautiful island of Mauritius boasts moonscaped mountains that dominate the island’s interior, surrounded by wild gorges, sweeping fields of green sugar cane and casuarina…