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The next day, yes it is Christmas time we
went to a mall in Port Elizabeth, our next stop, and honestly I never saw this
before, the mall was soooo crowded. You couldn’t even walk properly, so we
decided to go to bed early and to the beach, which was surrounded by harbor and
industry, the next day. For us it was not a really nice city!
Although we were excited for our next stop!
ADDO ELEFANT PARK…
We had some trouble with the booking but
finally they gave us their additional room and we could go on our own Safari.
The entrance to the park was really high, but since we are working for South
Africa we got it cheaper :)
We drove and drove and drove and drove, but
couldn’t see a single elephant, but Kudos, turtles, Zebras and many birds.
We
even saw a lion, what is a really not often to see. After almost two hours of
driving we finally saw him:
We were a little disappointed because we
only saw one out of 600 elephants, but the good thing was we saw 1 out of 6 lions :)
We had to get up really really early the
following morning because we had long drive before us and wanted to spend at
least half a day in Chintsa. And this was a good decision! Not only we were
able to see a giraffe looking over a fence next to the road we drive on but
also we had our own house in like a holiday camp and shared it with some other
volunteers from Cape Town.
We walked through a little forest and some dunes to
get to the beach. The water was so warm and to clear so Signe and I
(Nordseekinder ;)) spent quite a long time playing in the waves in there.
Afterwards we wanted to go to the supermarket but there would it be easier to
buy some ice cream than noodles, so we decided to drive to the next bigger
supermarket for 20 min on a grabble road with thousands of potholes…what a fun!
But at least we had ice with Amerula for desert :)
Our last accommodation would be in Coffee
Bay. We were supposed to drive about 2 to 4 hours but it took us about 7 hours
to get there and also a lot of nerves because the roads were bad and went
through all the slums, what was a unpleasant feeling from time to time.
But as we arrived we immediately fall in
love with this place. Such a beautiful and nice hostel. We slept in a little
hut like this:
For a long time we sat on a rock, looking
at the ocean, listening to the waves and talking about our tour! It had been so
good until this moment, even though we were on such a small room together for
24 hours and almost three weeks we all came along perfectly and got to know
each other better. I really hope I can keep up some contacts with the girls
here :)
We decided to eat the meal prepared at our
hostel and this was such a good decision that we did the same the following
day. As desert we had planned for a long time to do Chocolate fondue at the
beach. Even though the chocolate basically existed of sugar it was a nice thing
to do.
Afterwards we sat at the cocktail bar and small talked.
On our last day we booked a beach day
inclusive surfing lessons and lunch! Surfing was so much fun even though it was
hard at the beginning. 
I think the best thing was to spend the last day at a
beautiful beach. In the evening we decided to make some new contacts and to
have fun. At the bar there was a rule called “Buffalo” which means you are only
allowed to drink with your left hand, otherwise you have to ex your drink. I
think we should do this at home too, since it was fun watching the guys who
forgot about the rule: D
We had nice three hours or less of sleep
until we made our way back to PNB.
Sadly that our trip was over, we told the
other girls, whose had been in Lesotho on a ponytrakkingtour meanwhile, about
our trip.
I only can say we had a beautiful time and South
Africa is really a beautiful country! But when you go on vocation and really
want to see an “African lifestyle” you need to do more than the Gardenroute
because no doubt it is really beautiful, it is really touristic and European!
But anyway I can only recommend doing it!
So, this was everything about my, I guess,
biggest trip while I am here. I hope you can understand why I like it so much
here and maybe you are all a little bit jealous!
Lots of love!
Fredo
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