On Tuesday, we left for the Garden Route Trip, a five-day trip along the Southern Coast. We gathered at Herschel, where we met our tour guide, driver, and chaperone. We drove off along route 62, the longest wine route, the drive took quite some time. We went to the Cango Wildlife Park and the Cango Caves. It was really cool! We saw lots of animals in the wildlife park and the caves were beautiful.
After the caves, we checked in at our hotel, the Opstal Country Lodge in Oudtshoorn. We chilled at the pool and had really nice dinner at the buffet. We stayed up late and chatted with the whole group.
The next day we went to the Ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn, because almost everyone had disobeyed one of the silly camp rules, we weren't allowed to ride the ostriches and had to wait for an hour. After the farm, we drove off to Knysna, checked into our hotel, and went to the mini-Waterfront. From there, we took a boat across the Knysna Lagoon. We got off the boat at Featherbed, where we took a kind of train that was being pulled by a tractor. We drove all the way up the hill, from where we had a really nice view of the Knysna Lagoon. We got off the train, and walked back to featherbed, this took about an hour. Then, we took the boat back to the Waterfront.
After the boat tour, we went back to the hotel and relaxed for a bit. Then, we went out for dinner at Ocean Basket, we had really good sushi.
On Thursday, we went to Knysna Elephant Park. There, we could stroke the elephants and feed them. After which we went to the Bloukrans Bungee Bridge. Bloukrans is the highest bungee jump in the world. At first, I wasn't planning on doing the jump, but then I thought I'd regret it if I didn't. So I did it. And it was really cool! One of the coolest things I've done in my life. The feeling of falling was so amazing! After the bungee, we went to Birds Of Eden, the biggest bird aviary in the Southern Hemisphere. It was so big that you didn't even notice that you were in a cage.
After Birds Of Eden, we went back to the hotel in Knysna and had dinner at a local pizzeria.
On Friday, we went to the beach, while three of us went skydiving. After the beach, we drove to the Garden Route Game Lodge in Albertinia. We checked in, went to our rooms, chilled out at the pool, and went in an open vehicle sunset safari. This was cool, we saw: elephants, lions, springboks, wildebeests, rhinos, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs, springboks, and buffalos.
We had a really nice dinner after the safari at the lodge.
The next day, we drove back to Cape Town via Cape Agulhas (Southernmost tip of Africa) and the cheetah park in Somerset West. We arrived at Herschel at five.
That evening, we had a really nice dinner at Moyo (South African restaurant) with the entire Dutch exchange group.
Prepare for a lot of pictures and a lot of scrolling work, enjoy! :)
