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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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site in town I didn't bother to see properly last
year (when I had just looked around briefly after it had closed).
Walking up to the Castle, I saw a sign mentioning a 2:00pm tour, so I
paid the R15/US$2 admission and walked inside. The Castle is the oldest
surviving building in Cape Town (dating back to 1666), and still has many of
its original stones... I stayed with the guide for most of the tour, but
wandered off on my own towards the end. Kritz had asked me to call and
check in with him at 2:00pm (as he had wanted to show me a shopping complex
located outside of town later in the day) -- but giving him a ring outside
the Castle, I let him know I probably wouldn't be back until dinnertime (it
was a beautiful day and there was other things I wanted to do more than
visit a shopping mall).
Walking back up Adderly, the street turns into the Company Gardens (a
nice stretch of green with historic buildings, museums, gardens, and places
to relax). There's a new Jewish Museum in the Gardens, but after walking
uphill to reach it, found it closed in the middle of the afternoon. Turning
around to walk back into town, I headed off for the V&A again, though
stopped in first at the large new Cullinan Hotel to use their bathroom (the
hotel always appears to be vacant from a distance because there never seems
to be any cars outside it -- but indeed there were people staying there,
with the current single rate being R555/US$74 a night without breakfast).
At the V&A once more, I went to AudioLens to pick up a Fuji Superia 800
disposable camera with flash (R69.95/US$9.33), as I didn't have a flash unit
for my Canon AE-1 Program. Buying a milkshake at a food stand, I should
have waited, for at St. Elmo's (where I went next to buy a slice of pizza),
the milkshakes were only R4.90/US65c.
In the ampatheatre
...
See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
