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...

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...

Ah the Baz Bus, oh how I adore it..... does anyone sense a hint of sarcasm there when I say that!!! Lets just say that after only a handful of trips on this bus I had a bit of a good idea of what lay ahead. Luckily we had met a fairly good group of people which goes a long way in helping make the trip more bearable. You dont mind so much being in such close bodily contact with someone you at least know the name of because I am not exaggerating when I say that the...

So four hours on the Baz Bus and we arrived in Plettenberg Bay. One main road runs through this town which houses a beach with much marine life and surrounding parks. The hostel we stayed at was pretty cool, we all felt at home there so we just took the opportunity to have a rest and a couple of beers.It is here we met a scottish couple by the name of Chris and Michelle, they were really cool and had been travelling on there honeymoon for ten months.......ten mon...