Knysna Hollow Country Estate Knysna

... me , well I’ll be honest, I could barely lift him out of his watery, concrete Lay-Z-Boy because I was laughing like a wild , spotted hyena. Once out, Billy took off his shirt and went sprinting up the hill towards our apartment. I could barely see through the tears in my eyes.

Another highlight of our Knysna trip was a visit to a Raptor sanctuary where we were allowed to handle various birds of prey like owls and falcons and eagles. We ...

... but still be safe. So we saw crocodiles, pygmy hippos, flamingos, lemurs, Bengal tigers, white Bengal tigers, white lions, meer cats, wallabies, and cheetahs among some others. Seeing all the big cats was realy cool! We walked on platfroms over their exhibits. They had a place you could pet cheetahs too but I think we are waiting till Cape Town to do that. The tigers were so big and probably my favorite. The meer cats a.ka ...

... this. This is not what I expected to see in South Africa - and I was getting really saddened by it. I can only imagine how the Black people who live in them feel.

Not long after my tour of Knysa it was time to get back on the Baz Bus and go to Plettenberg Bay, my next town on the Garden Route. I was confident that there would be more things to do here. Hopefully since this is where I am spending my 40th birthday!

We shall see...

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Knysna környéke az emelkedő hegyekben egész Dél-Afrika egyetlen olyan része, ahol a vegetáció már-már idézi a trópusi erdők világát. Vasfák, sárgafák, ostorfák, lelógó zúzmókkal, liánokkal, páfrányokkal stb. Egy (Dél-Afrikában egyébként igen gyakori) lebetonozatlan, de számmal jelzett úton bekocsiztunk az erdőbe, egyre magasabbra felkapaszkodva az Outeniqua-hegységbe. Megálltunk a 600+ éves Edward király fánál, ami 39 méter magas. Majd Prince ...

Impozáns. Ez a szó jutott egyből eszembe a hermanus-i hotelünk reggelizőterméről. A 2. emeleten, ennek megfelelően kilátással az óceánra. Reggeli előtt még tettünk egy parti óceánbúcsúztató sétát (most már bálnaspotting nélkül), hiszen a jó öreg Atlantit a nap folyamán lecseréltük az Indiaira. És ehhez csak kb. 300 kilométert kellett kelet felé vezetnem. Nem a part mentén, mert ott nem fut végig út (ezért Cape Agulhas-t ki is hagytuk), hanem a hegyek ...

... a bit tricky as your sat on the floor and there's very little room. The Plettenberg bay skydive is billed as being (one of!) the most scenic drop zones in the world, and I can definitely understand why. Words cannot describe the feeling of tumbling out of the aircraft and then free-falling for 35 seconds over a stunning landscape. Last year when I came here, there was no way you would get me anywhere near the skydive, but I'm so glad I went for it this time! We headed to a party ...

... Town. Somehow I thought the lady had spent the whole day preparing that stuff herself.) The evening's singer was billed as something akin to South Africa's Ricky Martin, but the only thing he had in common with him was being of the same gender. His singing was little more than tolerable, although everyone was too polite to say so. (The guy's proud mother was in the audience taking pictures of all the guests.) I guess it's all relative. Perhaps he's the best in town. Some people ...

I remember her visit from America very clearly. I was 9 at the time, and I hadn't seen my Nana in forever. I was so excited. When she came out of the airport, I practically jumped on her!! Right after she arrived, we went to go see my second cousins, Kirsten and Megan, where they were ...

Well, surfing in Jeffreys Bay turned out to be a little more problematic than expected! I guess its not a venue for the world surfing championships for no reason!! I hired a board for 2 hours and fell on my face too many times to count!! After an exhausting morning of surfing the reat of the day was just spent chilling out by the beach and a bit of retail therapy at the local surf warehouses (well if I cant surf like a surfer than at least look like one!!) It was then a ...

... She dropped us at the cute small shopping area. Very touristy, very new, very cute. We had enough time to pop into a couple of these boutiques, get our cash and groceries by the time she collected us. We wondered if we'd feel like we had really missed out if we hadn't come into to town to browse around, but this quick trip squashed those worries. This town is very similar to the other coastal, touristy towns. Unfortunately, South Africa's spring is holding on tight and the weather just ...