After the Drakensberg, I moved on to Coffee Bay where I met up with Jess, Tracie, and Kerry. Coffee Bay is in an area of South Africa known as the Transkei Wild Coast. The rural region lives up to its name, and I loved how different it was than anywhere else I’ve been. The landscape was dotted with round mud huts, most a blue/green color. And we had little kids lining the road as we passed to wave at us. Most tourists in South Africa look out for the Big 5 - lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and cape buffalo. Here they have the Transkei Big 5 - cow, goat, pig, sheep, and donkey. On our drive from the bus stop to the Coffee Shack (our hostel), we had to slow down for every one of these
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