Garden Court Umtata

... are planting a garden for their use. They are using a method of gardening called permaculture. Permaculture is organic farming with a focus on producing the most food you can while minimizing waste and labor. You grow plants together that complement one another like corn, beans, and squash. It was hard work but I really learned a lot. I got to know some new people and really enjoyed my time there. I hope that I get to go back someday.

... Belegung uebernachtet, wobei bei der letzten leichte Ansaetze eines klassichen Kasernenambientes aufkamen. Es gibt aber auch Zimmergenossen in verschiedenen Ausfuehrungen. Darunter gibt es die dankbaren, welche loyal sind und vorausdenken, die am Vorabend jeweils schon wissen, dass sie am naechsten Morgen abreisen und welche dann morgens unbemerkt und lautlos aus dem Bett huepfen, den Rucksack ergreifen und sich wohl auf Zehenspitzen aus dem Zimmer ...

... adrenaline going!! It was great fun though and the views were amazing!! after a very chilled out couple of days in coffee bay my next stop was Cintsa, which promised more long stetching beaches and beautiful scenary and it didnt disappoint! The hostel wasnt exactly what I would call roughing it and resembled more of a lodge in a holiday park and I shared a house with just 10 people with our own kitchin, living room, balcony and garden ...

... law Wendy if she smelled fuel or smoke. Not very comforting. But we were all praying and the pilot was able to find the runway at the last minute in the fog and rain. They say it never rains here in this season (it is winter here). We are on our way to Coffee Bay.

... here is truly wild: a tropical green, it's rugged and undeveloped. No stores, no nothing, for miles. All travelers with food, asked where it was from, say they bought it at a place "very far away". Port St. Johns is such a place, which I'm glad I missed. Driving through it on Baz, it struck me as an all too busy, bustling rural African town, safe they say but a bit too crowded and dirty (river, streets) for my taste ...

29 This place, by the looks of it, is sensational. Got here via pick-up from Umtata. Baz drops you off at the Shell Ultra Station and the lodges send up their respective vans (with lots of trailer space for food and luggage) to meet travelers. The views along the drive were breath-taking and Bomvu itself is nothing short of magical. It only gets noisy when the drummers try their self-made drums, but other than that, it's the place to take a ...

... and watched the stars (bit gay, but probably the most relaxing moment of the trip so far) Loved this place, the people were great, the locals were so friendly and it really was a world apart from what we're used to back home... it really makes you take stock and realise the things that are important...... and we got drunk a lot!! Enjoy the pics Sharp-Sharp x -

... arriving in the dark. It was to a town called Port St. John's. The reason the wild coast is still so undeveloped is because the access to the small towns is mostly by dirt roads. You can not drive along from village to village by the coast. It is extremely mountainous. You have to go back out of one place to a main road and then drive back in to the next town. The drive there was quite interesting. We ...

... bluffs, due to the terrain and the ocean. As we walked through Mtambalala and Noqhenkwna they had written lots of messages on the hills in white stones. Apparently this helps keep evil away, and it's also easily seen from a distance! The hills on the way to Port St. John were also tended into small garden plots, sliding down the hillside, clinging on for dear life, again decorated and bordered with white shells and stones. It was odd to see such care ...

... resort. Just as we had finished filling up our water bottles from the stand tap, a chap from Durban told us not to drink it. So he gave us some fresh water to share, and off we went. Passing a large Chinese exploded shipwreck we started to climb up the coast. The landscape was now more mountainous, but the point was to try and see one of the tallest free-falling waterfalls along the African coast. And it was pretty spectacular. We stopped ...