WARNING LONG BLOG COMING!!!

Hey guys,

All I can do is apologise for not doing this sooner. I have left it so long but here goes. So from Siem Reap we travelled to Bangkok, we got an overnight bus and arrived into Bangkok tired but ready for our next adventure. We tried to find the Mosambique embassy, which was obviously hiding from us, making Pete extremely angry, so we had a beer instead (general theme of holiday). We then booked to go up to Chiang Mai as I desperately wanted to see the tigers after Emily made me jealous of her photos and I wasnt disappointed, the tigers were amazing. I went in the pens with the new borns and the 5-8 months and then the adults. Pete nearly pooped his pants when the adult stood up and turned round whilst he was trying to stroke his back. Most amazing thing ever having the new borns climbing all over me. We then went to a snake farm, where there was a snake show, I know sounds well cheesy and it was, had a guy commentating like a darts commentator, he was well cute. The acts were really quite good.

We then went out for a few casual beers and met a couple, the girl recognised Petes accent and it turns out she was from Widnes too, so I asked the guy where he was from and it turned out he was from Grimsby, so we decided that we had to get drunk together that night. Many a cocktail, buckets of booze and Sangson Whiskey turned into mayhem, dancing and drunkness. Pete didnt remember getting home. Good times.

We prepared ourselves for our mammoth journey, 4 back to back flights, 2 with Ethiopian airways-actually not too bad. We got to Mumbai airport, our passports taken off us and they told us to wait for our boarding passes. We waited for 4 hours, with a women asking constant questions about our plans in Africa and our next flight booked, getting right up our noses at 4am. We finally got our passes and passports and went for a 'relax' when a man came to ask us all the same questions about what we are doing in Africa, our flight out of Joburg and how much money we had, so Pete shouted at him and he left. Stupid India, already puts us off going.

The flights were harmless, we however got into Maputo in Mozambique and didnt have anywhere to stay, so ended up in a dingy hotel for too much money. After walking the streets the next day to find transport to Inhambane we went to a hostel for advice and a guy offered to drive us for a lot less than a taxi. He took us but realised he forgot where he was going, asked for advice in Portuguese and as he did a drunk guy tried getting into my car door, unsettling me slightly, no sign of knight in shining armour coming from Pete, he soon left. We got the the Chapa bus station. We got on our dodgy looking bus, stayed on the bus, whilst being sold everything you could imagine, after 2 hours we were still in same place, bus full we got excited, only for everyone to get off the bus and get onto another, still no ccommunication, so we follow suit. Getting in same places and sitting for another hour. We finally set off once they had rammed our cases on-charging us extra?And everyone elses including a guys machete-nice! We drove for an hour and stopped, on bus waited only to be told we had broken down and would have to wait an hour for another bus. 2 hours later onbe arrives, 1/2 hour chatting and we were off. So a 6 hour journey turned out as 14 hours-thats Africa times for ya.

We made it in Tofo, lovely beach resort and got our own little hut with a kitchen, so we went to the local shop all excited about cooking our own meal. Its strange getting excited about cooking but we have really missed it. We probably spent more on this food than we would do in a restaurant. Next moment we know the weather turns and we are stuck in our hut whilst it rains, we go to the diving meeting at the bar-how convenient to be told the weather has turned and no diving tomorrow. So we travelled miles and ended up with cloudy windy weather-tan is rapidly fading. We went for one dive, the boat out was so rough and scary, dive was ok and saw some cool things. We completed our deep discovery dive to enable us to go to 30metres so we did a deeper dive the morning after too much red wine with some lovely South Africans we met, rough journey and when we did our safety stop Pete was nearly sick and then tried on the boat, funny. The day we flew out we couldnt dive but the sun was out and diving was amazing, so we went for a snorkle, which was great but still jealous of the divers.

We flew to Joburg for the coldest nights sleep I have possibly had, fully clothed and sleeping bag and duvet-freezing. We got te baz bus from Joburg to Durban and hired a car from there travelling to Unkomaas or Aliwal Shoals. We went straight to the diving centre and they said we could go straight out today, so we prepped and went straight out, bit of a bumpy ride but safe, we were diving and next minute you know there are about 5-10 ragged toot sharks chilling in a cave-amazing!!!I totally freaked when one swam right next to me though. We saw turtles and eels, very fun. The dive the following morning was also amazing with a 3-4 metre long shark-bloody huge!!!

We travelled from here to Port st John for an uneventful evening with people that were on crack doing our heads in. We then went to Holes in the Wall, which was recommended by some SA's. Not kidding you, we hired a small 1.3 Daihatsu, which managed to get through these roads that were practically pot holes and gravel, we nearly had a divorce by the end, Pete taking me through townships in that car?Crazy, a few bumps to the poor baby but we made it. We went for a walk to the hole in the rock, followed by 4 manky dogs (very friendly but manky), which were also racist dogs as anytime a black person came close they went mental and starting barking. We met a couple who were strange and quite racist also, we were invite back for a drink so we went reluctantly back for him to say he was an recovering alcoholic and didnt have beer or wine but did have vodka redbull (redsquare), so instead of refusing we drank this awful drink whilst listening to quite racist remarks. I had to retreat quite quickly. We couldnt stop laughing when we got to out room. Funny what goes on.

We left here for our hard journey again and went to East London, we slept in a garden shed, and had a few beers. We wet from here to Tsitikamma, where we had 2 days rest, we met an Irish group who were doing the highest bungy in the world and we took them and watched them do it-wasnt tempted one bit, one girl did it in a superwoman costume. We chilled out and went to Tsitikamma natinal park, where we did some walks and Whale watching. Which was awesome. We slept in a tent, which was also really cold, but the beers helped to get us straight to sleep.

From here we went through Knysna, had a walk around the coast line, which was lovely and striaght to Hermanus, where we climbed some cliffs and did some land based whale watching, the whales got so close and were breaching lots, it was incredible. We went straight down to Cape Town after this where we picked up Kieran and Hayley from the airport. We have done so much here, we have been to Simons town and boulders beach to see the cute penguins, we have been to Cape point and seen some seals. We climbed table mountain, stupidly with only 1 bottle of water between 4 and a hangover, some nice English gave us some water and speered us on, bless them. We have hired a beaten up beatle, which was so funny but ended up being too hard and there was lots of fumes. We had an all dayer with K and Hayley drinking from 12, with buckets of beers, wine, shots and not much food=bed by 1030 and big hangover. Fun times though. Drinking has pretty much not stopped and we are still having an ace time. We went great white Shark cage diving and it was so good, we went back in for a second time and the shark came and hit the cage and it looked at me with its weird black eye and massive teeth-scary biscuits. We have had an ace time in Cape Town and are looking forward to out 21 day camping trip.

Signing out for now. Sorry again.

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