Blogs from Storms River, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 3

Hey everyone! I have had a busy few days and am now in Storm's River, a great little village which is slightly more rural than what I've seen so far. The people are very friendly and the hostel is good, but first I will tell you about Wilderness, where I spent the last 3 days. I took the bus from Cape Town to the Fairy Knowe hostel in Wilderness, which took about 8 hours. The hostel is in the woods, about a 25 minute walk from town (during which you pass many, many huge vacation homes). The rich white/poor black syndrome is quite obvious here. The beach here is absolutely huge, but with hardly anyone on it so I spent a day there and walking around town (which took about 3 minutes total). The hostel was ... read more

Hi everyone, hope you all had a very good new year!! Here we celebrated the new year twice, once in South African time and once in British time. I think some of the locals thought we were crazy when we started shouting happy new year at 2am! But it was great fun and lots of them even joined in with the English new year! After spending new years in Bloem, we then travelled down to the wild coast to Coffee Bay, joined by Frans’ best mate Gerhard (Who is crazy and not right in the head!). This place was really nice but really was quite wild and secluded, had a great atmosphere. Coffee bay is one of the great places for surfing, unless your name is Francois! While he was surfing he managed to fall off ... read more

I did it!!! 216 meters Bungee, the highest commercial in the world!! Oh my god, shit, wow, incredible, scary, the craziest thing I have ever done, felt sick, screaming out loud.. wooooooooohooooooooooo, absoulte madness!!! But I LOVED it!! :0) It was the most strange feeling, thought I was going to die and you probably think what is so good about that!? Well, the first free fall took 5 sec and the feeling and the rush that goes through your body is unbeatable! I couldn't stop screaming and laughing, hearing the echo between the mountains, amazing!! The scariest part was waiting for someone to come and pick me up, it felt lke I was jus hanging in this string for ages which I did and it gave me time to think about what happens if.., where are ... read more

Storms River is the touristy version of Natures Valley mixed with the flavour of NZ's Queenstown. For those interested in the worlds highest bridge bungy, sky diving, river rafting, scuba etc, this is your place! We prefer to stick to our normal routine of exploring, chilling, eating and drinking! Tube and Axe Back Packers is quite an awesome place and very condusive to all of our routine activities, even thru the day long power outages. The beer miraculously stays cold! Our tent, Maatian HQ is standing beautifully between banana and palm trees and next to the campfire. Because we'd done lots of hiking in NV we decided just to go for a leisurely stroll through the Tsitsikama National Park. Dressed in flip flops with minimal supplies of fruit and water and armed with a dodgy map ... read more