South Africa is Huge!

Alright I won't bore you too much but we left Kruger and our plan was to get to Cape Town [on far west coast] by the 15th to start our trip.
Our trusty 4 x 4 was to become our home for the next week. To be honest you need a good 3 months to taste South Africa. We drove south to Durban [ which is dodge place but food is quality!] and stopped in a place called Ermelo! Most locals don't even know this place but we stumbled on this really arty,cool Lodge and ended up drinking the night away with the south african/Irish owner and an American dude who was working there to help get SA ready for the world cup 2010.
Hungover and late we drove to Durban and nearly ran out of petol on top of a mountain in the fog. Listening to Springbok v Wales we arrived to a place that isn't safe to walk around at night so we chilled in our hotel bar and watched rugby! In the morning we walked the beach front and ate 'bunny chow' a lamb curry in an emptied out slice pan? Kav loved it!
We drove the next few days through mountain village sin Eastern Cape [local white Sth Africans advised us not to?] it was cool. We visited Mandela's hometown saw thousands of school kids walking home after school and tried thumbing lifts. No wonder these guys are good at athletics - they walk and walk!!

6 hours of driving each day and stopping at Port St John; [cool lodge in a valley]; Chintsa [needed 3 weeks hereto enjoy beaches and the backpacker mecca that is Buccaneers] ; then to Pletenburg Bay; stopping at surf centre that is Jeffreys bay and headed via Knysna and last leg to beautiful Cape Town
We had a lot of rain ; a lot of driving and a lot of good times! In Cape town we stayed put for 3 nights and explored her lovely beaches; brilliant peninsula that is the most southern point of Africa! The Indian ocean meets the Atlantic here and so we jumped in and swam [in a cage] with GREAT WHITE SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Brillaint, Brilliant, Brilliant!

Next chapter was to start our 41 day trip from Capetown to Nairobi Kenya! The night of the 14th we meet our new friends that will share this journey: 2 Irish; 2 Scots; 3 Aussies; 3 Sweds; 3 English ; 1 yank , a Kenyan Driver called Patrick and our lovely and sweet South African guide: Morinki

written by

Paddy&Kavitha on November 12, 2008 from Cape Town, South Africa

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Hello Kavita & Paddy,

Looked at ur "foto shoots" along with Jp & Latha.
Blown away by the shots , sp the :THE HERDS!

Regards,
Have fun.

Neeta & Nitin.
Krish

written by Dr Neeta Waje on November 15, 2008

brilliant Neeta! Thanks for checking them out- Hope you and the family are well.

Cheers
kavitha

written by

Paddy&Kavitha on November 21, 2008

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