SOUTH AFRICAN MUST DO'S:

-learn to surf

-see the big 5

-see a few world heritage sites

-stay on long street

-make a jambe

-ditch your shoes

-lay in a hammock at least once a day

-catch the sunset on the beach

-see a crazy lightning storm

-see an idiot chase a Puff Adder

-Just be

-sandboard

-table mountain at sunset

-pratice your Xhosa

-chill with locals

-run from big spiders

-take your malaria pills

-forget to take your malaria pills

-be in the wrong place at the wrong time and live to tell about it

-show your battle wounds from surfing

-watch dolphins from the beach, watch dolphins form the waves

-meet lots of english people

-wake up early everyday  (9:30 is a serious sleep in)

-chill

-braai

-pratice your drumming skills

-marshmellows and the most pathetic camp fires you've ever seen

-learn southern hemisphere constellations

-get sick. again. and again.

-make plans and break them (nepal anyone?)

-curse the baz bus

-fall in love with a hostel

-try your hardest not to spend money in the billabong factory shops

-go to sleep with sand between your toes

-own at least 2 copies of coast to coast at any given time