Road trip. Today, we picked up our hire car, and started to head out along the Garden Route, along the South Coast, to George and Mosselbaai. Along the way, we headed through Oudtshoorn to drop of Karen, a stray we had picked up fromt he Acacia tour. Driving to Oudtshoorn took us through some of the most amazing changing scenary we've encountered. We passed along the coast through seaside towns, before moving inland through mountains covered in pine plantat...

After a few days of relaxing, wandering around Cape Town, and catching up on washing, we're off to Robben Island, where Mandela was incerated for so many years. It's a very well conducted tour, and people are sheparded onto a ferry, across to the island, and piled onto a bus. We were then driven around the island to see the various points of interest: the lime quarry, the stone quarry, the leper cemetery, and the guards living quarters. The whole island isn...

Our last full day on tour, and we head towards Cape Town and stop at a farm in Clanwilliam. They grow grapes here, that are then sold on to a vineyard for wine making. It's a sedate affair, and we enjoy a civilised evening of wine tasting, or rather wine drinking, before hitting the sack.

This morning we left Clan William, and headed further down the coast to Cape Town. Our final point of call before the tour ends is a tour around a township. I generally found the whole thing very impersonal, and very invasive. In my opinion, it takes advantage of crap situation people are in, and exploits them. Yes, they agree to let people into their homes, but only becuase they need the money. I'm glad I did the tour, but I would never want to do one aga...

Today we cross into South Africa - but not before some Baboons cause a few giggles. One of the little b*****s came into our camp this morning and stole a tub of washing powder. It sure made me smile to watch one of the lads, who had a bad knee, limp after said baboon screaming profanities. If you ask me, we should have let the b***** try to eat the suds!! Crossing the border back into SA goes straightforwardly, and we camp for a night on the Orange River, bef...