Road Trip: Knysna to Addo

Well, we arrived at Eden's Touch mid afternoon on a drizzly and cool day.

Driving into the forest are between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay is an experience itself, but I think the perfect time to do is in fact on days like that. It adds an air of mystery to the forests.

Eden's Touch is a great getaway but is still close enough to civilization that if you forget the bottle opener or backed beans you can get one in under half an hour. We spent 3 wonderful nights here: braaiing, playing scrabble, and enjoying wonderful bottles of wine.

Leaving Plettenberg Bay, we took the N2 towards Port Elizabeth, and while we did the obligatory stops at various curio stops, I did not tell Marcell that we would be stopping at Bloukrans Bridge. For those who don't know, this is the site of the world's highest commercial bungy jump: 261 heart pounding, adrenaline pumping meters.

After the usual shall we or shan't we debates, we put down our moolah and got rigged up to do the deed. This was my second time to do Bloukrans, which made it a lot easier than the first time. I will say this though, this time it did not feel like flying... it felt like falling! However, I still thoroughly enjoyed it! Marcell also did it, and we both did the flying fox onto the bridge instead of the steel cage walk. That was definitely worth it. Had a quick bite to eat after we got back on solid ground and then it was time to get back on the road.

We drove on towards Port Elizabeth, through a ton of road work and the turned off the high way to make our way to Kirkwood, where we were staying next to use as our base to explore Port Elizabeth, Addo and Grahamstown.

More about that next time...

Later

M