Roadtrip through Namibia
After finals, three friends and I went on an adventure through nearly the entire country of Namibia. This is some of what we saw. Driving through southern Namibia Fish River Canyon Driving through the Namibian desert A Namibian sunset Sandboarding dunes outside Swakopmund
Khayelitsha
Some friends and I took a tour of Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s largest township. An estimated 1 million people live here, roughly 20% of Cape Town’s population.
Thirteen
Port-o-pottie tipping, Limited Too, cult-like cliques, Beanie Babies, crappy television, crappier music, foul hairstyles, forgettable slow dances, sugar bingeing, loitering, celebrity worshiping, Crazy Bones, lip gloss, spitballs, stinkbombs, Pokemon cards, food fights, phone fights, and stealing lawn ornaments This is the list of reasons why being resentful toward the person who pickpocketed me would be [...]
Drive Up the West Coast
A beach on the west coast of South Africa Table Mountain from the west coast
Cricket
I sat to watch part of a cricket match going on on my way home from campus. It aided none in my understanding of the sport. I’m just going to stick to baseball.
The More You Know… doo dooo do doo
On a secluded beach in Mozambique, I tried to three, maybe four dimensionally wrap my mind around the beauty of this humbling Indian Oceanscape. My thoughts could only reach 5/6 of the way. I smelled beauty in the breezes, I felt beauty in the sand at my feet, I saw beauty in the colors, I [...]
Lion’s Head Mountain by night
Lion’s Head Mountain at sunset
Some friends and I climbed up Lion’s Head to watch the sunset and see the view over almost all of Cape Town.
Insecurity Guard
Chris is the first person to ever make me worry my life was on the line. Chris is not the madman whose panicked eyes were multiplied by three as my two friends and I saw him charging at us over four lanes of traffic. That man dragged my friend down to the ground he called [...]
Spring Break in Mozambique
To get to Mozambique for our eight-day overland tour, we traveled first through Johannesburg, South Africa. We visited Soweto, South Africa’s largest township a few kilometers outside of the city. The first and last days of our Mozambique tour we stayed in the country’s capital, Maputo. On our city tour of Maputo, we visited the [...]
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