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The Dragons...

The last stop of the SA adventure will be the mountain range of the Drakensberg….. or in English, The Dragon Mountains. It is 200km long and is a barrier between SA and Lesotho. The area Ellie and I picked was the Sani Pass region as its the only way for 200 km you can get in to Lesotho from the East. We thought we maybe able to get the slug up the pass and drive around Lesotho for the day but more on that later. Again the hostel was great, it had no tv, no music no Internet just panoramic views of the Drakensberg and a big log fire which was the centre piece in the...

Cape Town here we come....

Ok, I forgot to mention an Ellie classic in the last blog. As it was such a dull and overcast afternoon on the day of the shark dive Ellie switched the lights on the Blue Slug. This was fine until she forget to switch them off and we only notice several hours later when there was a dull glow coming from the Slugs head lights. The guys from the Backpackers helped us push the slug down the road and with me trying to bump the car (It was my 1st time in the slugs driving seat and let me tell you its not a car for tall people, I couldn’t even get my legs under the...

Jaws...

We woke up dam early to escape the traffic of the Garden Route. After a lovely (long) drive passing loads of vine yards and ostrich farms…… hang on a sec, let me moan about ostriches for a moment. They really are the most pointless and stupid looking animals on this planet, they are the drag queens of the bird world with their silly big feathers and stupid long legs! Apparently some crazy farmer type South Africans even race them! Now where was I? Oh yes, so after a long drive we hit the most southern tip of Africa ‘Cape Agulhas’. It is where the...