SOUTH AFRICA, Cintsa

Cintsa

February 8-10th

Cintsa is a beautiful but small beach community but not much to do except enjoy life. There is surfing and kayaking. There was free wine with afternoon activities such as volleyball.

SOUTH AFRICA, Baz Bus to Knysna

Baz Bus to Knysna

February 4-7th, 2013

Leave beautiful Cape Town on the hop off hop on Baz Bus which goesfrom Cape Town to Johannesburg via the Garden Route, Wild Coast and Drakensberg Mountains. I will be on this route for 14 days and will decide where to head after I arrive in Jo'burg.

Knysna is a nice city of 50,000 perched on a lagoon and surrounded by forests. Nothing in particular I wanted to do here, just a nice stop along the route to chill for few days and then get to my more important stops of Cintsa, Coffe Bay and the Drakensberg Mountains. Will be here for 4 days but mostly chilling as I have done most activities they have here so nothing special enough to get my money.

SOUTH AFRICA, Chapman's Peak

Hiking to Chapman's Peak from Houk Bay

February 3, 2013

Purchased a hop on hop off ticket to visit the coast area around Cape Town. The bus is a double decker and you can hop on and hop off and any of the listed sights. I only got off at The Wharf at Houk Bay and then walked up to Chapman's Peak. It took about 3 hours in total from The Wharf but the hike up was not very hard. Lot of people driving it and hiking up. It has 114 curves from the bottom to the top. The views were amazing. Houk Bay is also famous for the surfing. During the surfing competition the waves get over 60 feet high. Add that to absolutely freezing water and few Great White Sharks I will not add this to my bucket list.

SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town (hop on, Hop off coastal view)

Hop On Hop Off

February 3, 2013

After finishing the hike to Chapman's Peak I got back on the hop on hop off tour bus that traveled along the coast around Cape Town to Hout Bay, Camps Bay through Clifton and back to Cape Town. 

SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg

December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas to all. Woke up in Natchez at 5:30 am to no electricity and pouring rain. Not the start I had hoped for to begin my Africa trip. Fortunately for me, my cousin, Brad, had agreed to drive me to the airport. I arrived at the airport at 9:25 am and within 5 minutes I had checked a bag, cleared security and made it to my gate. No one flying today. Now only 2.5 hr wait but better safe than sorry.   

I will have a 2 hr. layover in Atlanta and then a 15 hr. 20 minute direct flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. I am staying at a hostel only 1.5 miles from the airport in Johannesburg because I fly to Livingston, Zambia the next day to begin my week at Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls has always been somewhere I wanted to visit.On January 4th, I will join an Overland Truck Safari. We will be camping in tents most of the time and will travel to Botswana, Namimbia and end in Cape Town, South Africa. The 21 day safari will include 4-5 National Parks and will include the incredible sand dunes in Namimbia.

At the end of the safari I will spend another 5-6 days in Cape Town and then head out on my on through South Africa and Zimbabwae before flying to Uganda for 3-4 weeks. Searching for and visiting with the mountain gorillas will no doubt be the highlight of this trip but you never know.  Not sure of any other destinations, will play it by ear.

Will post pictures when the internet is available and affordable.