A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
The Cape of Good Hope has always intrigued me. I read a lot of history books when I was growing up. About great explorers crossing oceans and all of the adventures they had along the way. I knew at a young age that it was in fact Abel Tasman that discovered New Zealand, not Captain […] Read more…
Is the Great Ocean Road, one of the most visited parts of Australia, overrated? I kinda thought so. Don’t get me wrong. The beaches are beautiful, the towns are cute and the coastal views from the road are great (well, on one stretch anyway) but despite all this, I felt it was lacking. Lacking in […] Read more…
We never planned to hike the mountains above Constantia Nek in Cape Town. I hadn’t even heard of the place that morning. After packing up and checking out of our first Air BnB apartment in Cape Town, we took the shortest route to our next apartment rental in the seaside suburb of Hout Bay. The […] Read more…
In my opinion, it wouldn’t be a trip to Cape Town without a visit to the wine region an hour out of the city. So despite there being so much to do in Cape Town itself, we still managed to squeeze in a day trip to sample the wines and soak up the scenery in […] Read more…