I just spent 4 weeks in South Africa (and nearby countries Zimbabwe and Botswana) for a vacation. And of course….football!!!
It all started at New Years Eve 2009…when I was looking at the new year about to start and thought “what adventure are we going to have in 2010?” I started to surf the web and found the FIFA website.
This triggered all the things people said about how great Germany was and the atmosphere. I’ve wanted to go to Africa and this seemed like a great way to combine a new place to explore and the World Cup 2010. So I put in my bid for 15 tickets and waited…..
Feb 28th 2010 – An email arrived with “Congratulations you have 7 tickets….and we charged your credit card $3,000″
So the next few months were planning out where to go and what to see.
Of course, I thought “I wonder if there are any geocaches in South Africa?” and not really expecting much….
I ran a few pocket queries and woah, was I surprised….this is just a few miles of Cape Town…
And this picture is a 10 mile radius. Incredible amount of South Africa geocaching!
We ended up with ~50 South Africa geocaches and got one in every city with a football match we attended. Not bad.
To see more about the football, you can see this geocache blog post with a short video on the goals, cities, games, and fun!
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Wow! I would love to hear more about the caches you found while on your trip!
I’ll add another entry with a couple of the caches – one fave was going around cape town city on a bus!