At the moment I'm traveling through my own country as a tourist. How many people ever do that? I'm always telling my friends where to head off to in south africa but never done these things myself, so now its my turn. Today I drove through part of the eastern cape and I'm camping in morgan's bay on what is know as the wild coast. So far I haven't had time to explore, or even go to the beach but I'll do that in the morning.
What a beautiful drive to get down here though. There's a bit of everything, ocean views, mountainous countryside, flat plains, farmland and towns and lovely people everywhere I go.
This morning started with me driving alongside fields of sugarcane and the sweet smell out heated sugar filled my nose as I drove. Sugar fields were replaced with vast open tracts of land, untouched and unspoilt, the occasional dwelling dotted here and there, the only signs of life being the numerous farm animals that lined the freeway edges. I don't understand why the grass next to the road tastes better than the grass in the fields! But then again I'm not a regular grass eater...
The roads were a chaotic mess of upgrades but you gotta love the entrepreneurial skills of south africans, all sorts of things were for sale in the big traffic jams that ensued! In one traffic jam I was watching some school kids that had obviously just been let out. Most were smiling and waving to me but one little boy snacks his lips and let out one of the funniest wolf whistles I've heard! He's gonna grow up to be a player!
Besides some horrendous mist the rest of the trip was uneventful and I'm now safely nestled into my tent ready to read my book!
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