Backpacking The Garden Route

To finish my month in South Africa with a bang I booked to do a 5 day backpacking bus tour of the Graden Route. Along this route you see the 3 natural beauties of South Africa, the water, the landscape and the wildlife. We have seen Mussel Bay, where the Europeans first landed in the 1500's when on there want to India. It was revisited many times by the Portuguese and Dutch after the first landing after word spread of its incredible natural beauty.

I left yesterday morning and departed on a 4 hour rode trip to the start of the route, rolling hills and grand mountains flew by, vine yards and game parks too. Ŵe even noticed ostriches, elephants and blue cranes on our journey. I slept a lot in the car but whenever I was awake I tried my hand at running the music for the tour bus! We made a couple stops, but most notably for lunch at the 'original aloe factory shop' where they hand fields full of aloe plants and a factory floor you could go and look at.

Our first activity was in the afternoon, we canoed the river Touw, a extremely clean slow river which is protected by towering peaks covered with trees on either side. It was like travelling up a jungle stream, and in the afternoon sun it was stunning! My partner was a Samsung junior marketing manager from Frankfurt Germany.

We stayed the night at a backpackers lodge called Afrovibe on Myoli beach. It is absolutely beautiful and I added some more sunset pictures to my collection. We ate pizza and drank with sand between our toes gazing into the fire that kept us warm.

Today, we are going bungee jumping!! Off the highest bridge in the world! But it won't be the stereo typical up and down movement that makes you ill, instead it's a pendulum motion where you will be back up on the bridge in no time. 2 hours to go and I'm so excited!
Love to all my familly xxx see you tomorrow!