This Friday Ashwin took us on the first of the four trips arranged by the international office around South Africa. We went to Cintsa, a town on what’s called the Wild Coast of the eastern cape. The area is known for its undeveloped land that holds lots of animals and hard to access beaches. We stayed at the Buccaneers backpacker lodge, about two and a half hours away (more if you get slightly lost as we did). Most of the route consisted of steep hills, some of it was on road that was hardly paved. Eventually we bumped and shook our way up into a compound of small bungalows. Our little bungalow had 4 rooms, a large main room with kitchen, two small bedrooms and a bathroom. Vines and flowers grew all over the walls and every morning we woke up to the noise of a monkey jumping on the roof.
There were things to do, we wanted to go to the game park and see elephants but there was a large group visiting and everything was booked. We’re still getting used to the South African laid back approach. Just because you say you’d like to book something to one person on staff tonight it doesn’t mean that he’ll automatically tell the person working tomorrow! So we just spent all our time that weekend, alternating our time between the beach, dinner, and the bar. Not a bad weekend.
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