Pictures from Travel-Stained Life
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Things we learned: Currency: Rand (7.5 Rand=$1 USD) Cities Visited: Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Cape Town There are 11 official languages in South Africa and we met many people who spoke at least two of them. Afrikaans is the language of the Dutch settlers who came to the country (I didn’t know this until our visit). [...]
Although our time in Cape Town was short, we still had the opportunity to learn more about the history of South Africa and how it had affected those that we met during our time there. The downfall of apartheid and the rise of the ANC and Nelson Mandela during that time was discussed many times [...]
One of our only disappointments about South America was that we had to leave earlier than we would have liked to take advantage of the great airfare prices from Buenos Aires to Cape Town. This basically meant that we had to miss Patagonia and the southern tip of South America. While the southernmost point of [...]