22. Cederberg Days 4 & 5

On Thursday, we went on a hike. It was a very long hike that took the entire day. We left the campsite at 8.20 in the morning. We had to take as much water as we could because there wouldn't be places to refill your water bottles. 

First, we hiked up the mountain, near the top of the mountain we had to climb through narrow cracks. Some parts of the cracks had been given names such as "The Birth Canal" and "The Coffin". These two passageways were so ridiculously narrow that people even got stuck. When we finally arrived on top of the mountain, we had a little break. 

We continued our hike to the arch, this was a huge arch out of rock. We had lunch underneath the arch and we all climbed on top of the arch for a group picture. 

After we saw the arch, we went to the radar beacon. At the radar beacon is a jar that was put there by Bishops. Every Bishops group that visits, writes their names on a piece of paper and leaves it in the jar. So did we. In the jar we found the names of last year's Rijnlands' exchangees. This was cool!

We kind of got lost at the beacon but eventually we found our way. We were able to walk back in our own pace, so the Dutchies got back at the campsite rather quickly. :)

That night we had a nice braai with the whole group.

On Friday, we packed our stuff and left the Cederberg. We arrived at Bishops at five and everybody was very tired.

Here are the last Cederberg pictures:

Last year's exchangees' names, found in the jar at the beacon.