30 March to 3 April 2014
Having left Cape Town on the 30 March, we spent the next ten days travelling up the South African East coast to St Lucia. And what a wonderful and amazing journey it was! The so called Garden Route is a stretch of road from Cape Town to Tsitsikamma and goes along the coast up and down hills, through thick green forests, green bushland, white sandy beaches and dunes, river estuaries and lagoons - full of exotic wildlife that up to now we had only seen on television.
It is difficult to say what we liked best, but Wilderness was certainly one of our most favourite places. There, the two of us took a canoe and paddled upstream on the river Touws, a very calm and peaceful way to travel. As the river became smaller and shallow, we left the canoe and continued by foot through the forest to a waterfall where we sat the afternoon til sunset and saw colourful birds and butterflies, large spiders, lizards, a green Mamba (snake) swimming through the river, and even a group of about 15 baboons (monkeys). Another beautiful and very different place was Knysna, a big lagoon of about 5 kilometres in length with crystal clear water, white beaches and an amazing variety of fish and sea birds. Natures Valley, Mayoli Eastuary, the Tsitsikamma Park, Storms River and Plettenburg Bay (South Africa's surfer paradise) were equally nice and one could easily spent a whole month exploring and that part of Africa.
We tried to take some photos but it is almost impossible to capture the whole experience as it was. For that we would need a camera with a 360 degree view with sounds and smells of the forest or rolling waves of the ocean, or the feeling of warm sand between your toes. On many occasions we just sat in silence and enjoyed the moment.
Here are some pictures for you...
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