Log in
Join travelers community
Your Profile
Logout
Very detailed Africa travelogue with lots of information for anyone planning a trip. Indexed for easy reference. 11 Countries over 3 months.
3 months in Africa -- detailed travelogue, travel tips, indexed
Larry2006-05-27 03:11:54
Displayed times (last time: )
within central Cape Town, R8 for the aerial car or V&A, R10
to Green Point, R12 to Sea Point, or R15 to Camps Bay (and with ticket
books, the rate goes down even further). To give you a comparison, the ride
from Table Mountain to the V&A would have been R50/US$8.20 with a normal
taxi; with Rikki's, it was R8/US$1.31. Rikki's operates Mon-Fri, 7am-7pm,
Saturday 8am-2pm, and is closed on Sundays. Wherever you are in Cape Town,
just call them at 423-4888, and they'll pick you up and take you where you
want to go -- often with one or two other people in the bakkie as well
("bakkie" is South African slang for "pickup truck"). Another great thing
about riding Rikki's is listening to the banter between the driver and the
base -- they're always cracking jokes, talking politics, or commenting on
the latest gossip, all while ferrying you to your destination. They're also
a cheap alternative to-and-from the airport as well: the normal airport
shuttle operated by Intercape is now R90/US$15, but Rikki's will take you
for R70. While riding to the airport in March, I asked the Rikki's driver
if the new minibus taxi laws would affect them, but the driver replied that
they wouldn't, as theirs is a different type of service.
Rikki's came to pick me up at the base of the aerial car and take me down
to the V&A Waterfront, where the boats to Robben Island leave from. Robben
Island (like San Fransisco's Alcatraz), is a now-abandoned prison island,
where Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners were housed during the
apartheid era. It has since been turned into a museum, and you can take a
ferry out to the island for a half-day guided tour, led by a former inmate.
On the ferry over, I met an old white South African who was on the board of
the Robben Island Museum (he was on his way to a planning meeting
...
See photographs from:
Botswana Gallery
,
Cape Verde Gallery
,
Kenya Gallery
,
Lesotho Gallery
,
Malawi Gallery
,
Mauritius Gallery
,
Swaziland Gallery
,
Tanzania Gallery
,
Zambia Gallery
,
Zimbabwe Gallery
I just thought it might be helpful for you to know how i am finding your system.
Thank you
Susan J, 2008-01-28 14:00:20