South Africa - Gardon Route

-by Lingling; Jan. 2008

Cape town & Gardon route, South Africa

2007-12-21 Visiting wine resorts at Frankenhoek and Stellenbosch

Black people's villige

Hiking around Capetown

Many hiking trails along the way...

Garden route

2007-12-22 Saturday Capetown - Hermanus

	Driving away from Capetown...

2007-12-23 Sunday Stellendam

The white church
They make fresh bread in the garden and you can eat it warm at the restaurant...	A small museum to see the past...
On the way to lover's trail	The trail was not maintained, endless, need to take off the shoes and hike in the mud... for a moment, we almost gave up, since the small streams suddenly becomes 1m high...
	The trail ends up to a spring, which was such a retreat!

The route 62, it was a very beautiful trip

2007-12-24 Outschoon

Vistied a cave... adventurous tour, some parts of it was so narrow that fat people cannot go through... luckily I am still young and fit.

That night we had a great Christmas dinner -

Christmas eve dinner -

2007-12-24 Monday Outschoon - Wilderness

2007-12-25 Wilderness - Kynsna

2007-12-26 Kynsna

The Knysna oyster company is such a heaven to taste fresh oyster with champions!

I love Oyster!

2007-12-27 Kynsna - Plettenbay - stormriver

Today I have done the Tsitsikamma coastal NP, it was a very hard hike under the big sun, the first part of Otter trail, though very tired,
it turned out to be very memorable

Highest Bange jumping in the world 300m!	Half the trail, there is a cave...
	Reaching the waterfall feels so rewarding!

2007-12- 28 Natural valley

Natual valley - there is no umbrella and the sun is big. A tree house would do...

Price pass - the road was forbidden to enter this summer, and there is a reason... :-) i saw the reasons... The the view really worth the risks!

There is a reason why the road was closed...

2007-12-29 Plettenbay / Kynsna

Today we went to Plettenbay, finally a city! I happily did my shopping for a surfing board, a hat and enjoyed internet a bit...Whole day on the beach,
it was really great! The waves are 3 meters high close to the beach, perfect for surfing, sea kayaking!It was quite an experience.
- I made friend with a little beautiful girl, she surfed with me... I like her, very cute girl.
- Baby black baby girls play and dancing on the beach with the music… it was just cool, so cool that I forgot to take pictures already...

Stay in Kynsna is a great choice!

South Africa is the place, I would always want to go back to...