Blogs from Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 3

This leg of our journey involved two more of my favourite things - beaches and all things golf. Despite this area's name - Garden Route, our goal was to follow the coastline as closely and as much as possible and if there was a beach, we would find it. The golf, well, you got a taste of that in one of my previous entries and for more, read on. b. Cape Town to Hermanus We drove out of the city on the four-lane divided N1 thinking that the end goal, the town of Stellenbosch, should be reached quickly. Stellenbosch is both the centre of the Cape's wine growing as well as a university town with deep Afrikaans historical roots. Once we got off the N1, we immediately started seeing vinyards. Unfortunately it was Sunday and many ... read more

Exactly like the Garden of Eden. Except real. I picked up my rental car from the entirely real and legit and not-a-scam-at-all company called Tempest. It was a little Tata Safire, apparently of Indian construction. It had many of the features of a real car, such as doors and a steering wheel, and I have to say a fairly good radio/cd player; but it was small and weak, like Switzerland. Nonetheless, it would suffice for this trip. I began my Garden Route adventure by driving down the western road to Cape Point. The most south-western point in Africa (the most southern point is Cape Aghulas, but there's nothing there) was a savage place. A soft green and blue canvas, slashed with grey-black rocks and splashed with white foam from the crashing waves. On the way there, ... read more

Hey Everyone, Just so you now, when the computer allows us too, we always respond to your comments and messages... for some people, for some unknown reason it will not allows us too... but we thinkit is only Mommy cyndy and daddy don's that does that. Just go to the comments part and look for our comment back. We will start writing who we are writing back to in the title so it is easy to find. A quick update, we are in Nature vally right now and it is beautiful. We cannot upload pics from this computer, but as soon as we can we will! we are here for the next 3 days... and today on the way here, we drove past baboons!! EKKK! We hope your all doing really good and keep in touch! ... read more

Hello.. so the the second part of the Garden Route. Day 4 and 5- Plettenberg Bay These days we stayed at Plet bay in a hostel called Amakaya, lovely place with the lady called Mary who loved (and more than Charlie if that is possible) Cricket! The first day was our first encounter of rain which made Cassie very grumpy so we went to see the Monkeys and Birds of Eden to try and cheer her up. First we went to monkey land- where we saw a variety of money including a rare white gibbon and a micheal jackson monkey. We went on the longest swing bridge where they filmed Indiana Jones. Our guide repeated himself a lot, although so much so we still cant remember what he said! And as we left we managed to ... read more

Friday (9/7/10) We packed up our gear and waited for the Baz Bus to Mossel Bay. The Baz Bus was packed! We eventually arrived to Mossel Bay Backpackers, a lovely beach themed B/P just a block back from the ocean. We dropped our gear off and headed out in search of lunch. Location perhaps obscuring our judgment but the views from Diappo restaurant directly over the beach looked too good to refuse. The food was less impressive but we filled up on some pasta and a burger just the same. We wandered back along the shoreline past a young seal feeding in the shallows and some fisherman with some impressive full thrusting jigging techniques and stopped at the supermarket picking up some wine and oysters for dinner. Back at the hostel we were tucking some nibbles ... read more