The shuttle bus from the coffeeshack dropped us off at the Umtata shell garage,we had been informed that the Baz Bus was delayed due to the fact that it had broken down, ther is no real suprise there! So we set up camp in the service station restraunt for the next few hours. We being me , Fiona, Bonnie and Andy. We ordered some food which ws to be the first of a number of orders as we were to be sat there for the next 4,5 or 6 hours. we felt obliged to purchase s...

Ahhh Coffee Bay, everybody stops by there and everybody loves it. A recommendation to all who might be travelling that way, stop there it is a cool little place. Not that it is the easiest place to get to but that is part of its appeal! Coffee Bay is so named because in the 1800s apparently a shipwrecked nearby and as a result coffee beans (large amounts of ) were washed up on the shore.So you get dropped off in Umtata at a shell service station and you think sur...

Now the drag of leaving the hostel at 5.30am was soon blown away by both the journey to and the time I spent in Cintsa. Leaving the city smog of Port Elizabeth we found ourselves in a more natural Africa, probably what people expect to see, small cllections of huts clustered together on vast open land.The sun was shining and the wind was blowing. The roads were becoming increasingly winding and bumpy. You could see women and men working the land in the fields wit...

So after finishing the scenic flight we headed back to the campsite for some gnosh and a few beers. It was to be an early start the next day a long drive day which would involve burning in the suns rays sitting at the window and lots of drinks stops because inevitably people were going to get hot, i mean come on people it was reaching the sweltering heights of forty degrees in the shade!!!!So after packing everything up we headed towards Rundu,Namibia. There is n...

Now then if you are a surfer dude this is sirely the place you should look to come. Jeffrey's Bay has some world class surfing spots including super tubes, now im not a surfer chick and was not ready at that point to try my hand at a bit of surfing. The main reasons being firstly that I was watching the pennies and secondly the hostel we stayed at, Island Vie backpackers is a bit of a party place and we happened to get placed in the dorm right next to the bar...