The second evening we spent in Cape Town was quite dull and rainy. Nevertheless, we headed towards the sea front to take some pictures of the ocean. On the way back, we went though this interesting passage.

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Few days ago I went to take a short ride on my bike and I ended up by the river with my tripod:). I lived near this spot for more than five years and I never took a picture. Now when I don’t live there anymore, I changed that.

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The first evening in Drakensberg was really nice and calm. I finally got to shoot the sunset. This is another of the pictures from that evening.

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The landscape around the Amphitheatre in Drakensberg is extraordinary. I tried to capture it with my wide-angle lens and also with the zoom lens. This one is, of course, taken with the zoom lens. I processed it only in Lightroom, it’s not an HDR.

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South Africa without safari is not South Africa. We hired a car and spent the entire day driving around the small part of the park. We were looking for living creatures and I have to admit we were quite lucky. We saw many giraffes, elephants, zebras, antelopes, buffaloes and some other animals. We didn’t see any cats though. This is one of the many elephants we saw that day.

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