Backpacking in Cape Town - A Travel Review

As a backpacker, the Cape Peninsula day tour was one of my favorite stops in South Africa: I got picked up at my lodge, or as I liked to call them (no matter which one I was at) my hovel away from my hovel and we went up the beach to Hout Bay harbour. Out the windows was a great view of the Twelve Apostles Mountains.

When we got to Hout Bay they gave us the option of taking a boat trip out to the Cape Fur Seal colony on Duiker Island at an extra fee which I decided to take and it was definitely worth the little bit of extra money. We saw the penguins in Simons Town (they are at Boulders Beach). The guide told us that if it weren’t for local protection, those ... / continued

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