As the picture suggests the reason for being here is to see the dry craggy mountains. After another day of going up and down in tha car we arrived at Sani Lodge on the only road pass to the mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Sani Lodge was promising at the start; staying in a round house with good views, home made cakes, fresh milk from the farm open, log fire and cheap. After less than stimulating conversations with the people I took the opportunity to escape to the ...

The most interesting aspect of coffee bay was getting to it. We had travelled back into the real Africa - thatched circular painted mud huts, people walking up and down the highways and general africa mayhem. The roads had to deteriate as well. My plan to take the potholes fast (fly over the top) was abandoned when there was a particulary wide one and a nasty noise from the suspension and an even nastier noise from Liz. Coffee bay was a rather scruffy place with ...

Chitsa was a days drive north east over hot dry cactus covered mountains. The day was kind of foot all the way down for 10 - 15 minutes then onto the brakes for the way down - is there anywhere in SA that is flat! Buccaneers Retreat where we stayed didn't help as it consisted of a series of bungalows on the side of a hill. The owner build these and planted trees and other plants to make the place lush without spoiling the views of 17km white sand beach and the la...

As it is the surfers mecca you may be forgiven for thinking that we wanted to do some surfing. In fact we went to check out the cut price clothes and watch TV movies (not many places have TV).

The Garden Route is one of the main tourist attractions in South Africa; however you would be disappointed if you expected either gardens or tourists. In fact 'Garden Route refers to being fertile and is where most food is grown. Strangely I did not see much in the way of farms either. What the garden route has is lots of mountains, beaches and trees (the later attracts the hippies). The first place we went to was BuffaloBay; solitary backpackers built in the sa...