South Africa - Wine and Ocean

South Africa, with a devalued Rand, is by far the best valued country on our entire trip! We toured around "the Cape" wine and whale districts and spent some great days in Cape Town itself. We ate at a five star restaurant, went to several spas where Anna spoiled herself rotten, and stayed in four and five star accommodation all for relatively cheap!

Highlights were shark diving (see separate blog), hiking table mountain, eating game (warthog, springbok and kudu) and an sweet apartment with a real front loader washing machine (first in 2 months).

Our favorite town is Franshoek. We stayed in a converted barn (now five star apartment) that was bigger than our condo in Toronto, and nicer appointments. We also ate at a five star French restaurant and shopped for Zimbabwean springstone art. Wonderful and recommended to anyone off-season, as it was SO cheap.