The past few days have followed the same routine of early morning yoga with the sun rise followed by the most amazing breakfasts and the off surfing with our instructor Yosef (who we have know renamed paddle, as it's his favourite thing to shout at it seems). Afternoons are pretty chilled before the evening yoga sessions, and some more delicious food!
The food here is so flavoursome, so many spices and different colours. I've eaten things I would never usually consider eating such as banana and avocado smoothie, chocolate avocado torte and cumin scrambled eggs. Deffinately taking some good recipe ideas with me!
Today we mixed things up and ventured off after breakfast to Paradise Valley. Wow! Even just the drive was breathtaking. Watching the land turn from arid desert landscapes to a lush oasis paradise. We were deffinately on the party bus with Red our driver cranking up the cheesy tunes.
After a 30 minute hike... In flip flops, we reached a rocky spot which overlooked the natural fresh water pools. Beautiful. Beautiful but lethal, I decided a dip to cool off would be a fantastic idea so attempted to gracefully enter this pool... The result was more weeble than Bond girl as I slipped on some weed and plunged I to the fresh water!
Back at the hostel after a beer run for tomorrow's BBQ (so much for alcohol free retreat) we completed the days yoga and sat down for dinner. I'm currently sat in the lounge with a few house mates as we all natter and play on our phones (such a social bunch). I'm about to head to bed as my body needs some rest before surfing tomorrow!!! Night all :)