Day 6
Today is a very relaxing day with potential to be extremely exiting, we drive to Tsitsikamma National Park and the only thing on the agenda is the walk in the National Park and the possibility of taking the plunge off the highest bridge jump in the World ( 216m). I posed the question for the jump and unfortunately we had no takers, so we head for the park. the weather just spectacular and before we enter the park we stopped at the quaint little Storms River village hotel for lunch, they do make a "lekker" chicken burger. while waiting I decided to take all to a novelty in town, the Elvis and Marilyn Monro restaurant, yep they still have a huge Jukebox with all the Golden oldie rock songs on hand, and as an added bonus there are 68,69 and 70 Cadillacs on display. Suddenly everybody forgets their age and starts to Rock and Roll, having a great WoW moment at that. the Park has spectacular scenery and all agreed that the day was a success.
Day 7
we are heading towards Oudtshoorn and we have a rather full day planned, our first visit to the Born in Africa was interesting but was let down by the school holidays, no kids means no fun (they usually provide WoW moments for the visitors. I had an ace up my sleeve, we are going on an optional whale spotting tour. My friends the Humpbacked Whales did not disappoint, when the first one arrived it was only a few meters from our boat, we stayed with them for more than an hour always close...WoW,
Our journey continued to Knysna where the group had some time for a short walkabout, before we set off to Oudtshoorn via the Garden Route's Lakes district and the spectacular Outeniqua Mountain Pass.
We arrived just after dark for an Ostrich fillet prepared by Louis, our host, dinner was just brilliant in a perfect setting.
Day 8
So far we have been blessed with real WoW moments and everybody wanted to know what today would deliver, we went to the town for a walkabout, and apart from a traffic officer asking the bus to park at a parking spot near a hotel the town did not have that great moment that all was looking for. fortunately the rest of the program was about to deliver, consider this kissing an Ostrich, Riding these strange flightless bird, and to top it all getting an Ostrich neck message....great fun. We headed for the famous Cango Caves to view the fantastic art mother nature made over millions of years, and even for me as a Tourist Guide the caves remain spectacular, bu more was waiting for us in the form of the Swartberg Mountains, viewing these mountains from within you come under the impression of the powers released when the continents were formed created the Cape Fold mountain Ranges, and the fantastic panoramic views they offer. Our dinner was another gem at Kobus Lategans Open air Restaurant named Kobus se Gat. we all agreed that the day was one big WoW
Day 9
visiting Mosselbay without a stop at the oldest post office in South Africa and the Diaz Museum would be incomplete as would be a drive through the Robinson pass without getting out to view the fynbos, seeing two Southern Right Whales just off the beach is very special.
Our day was rounded off with a game drive spotting Cheetah, Buffalo, Rhino and Lion up close and very personal, and then a near perfect Moon rise.............. yep a near perfect day......WoW
Today we head for Cape town with the sole aim to go to the top, the main challenge is the weather and believe me we just had the most perfect weather all 370 km to cape Town and to be standing on top of the Mountain in winter not wearing winter clothing alone is a WoW. Clear sky's and no wind just perfect !!!
Day 11
This is our second to last day and knowing the rout I was certain that the tourists would have WoW moments during the day, Our drive out to Houtbay was spectacular with the sun rising over the mountains in the east bathing the Cape Flats and Table mountain (on the Kirstenbosch side) in an gold sun shower that forced us to stop the bus for a photo moment. Houtbay itself also fantastic photographic scenes if you are prepared to walk about, just have a look at those multi-colored reflections in the Harbour, pure postcard stuff. We soon departed for Cape Point National Park
and our fist wildlife, a small troop of baboons have taken over the road, and giving us ample time to observe them. When we arrived at Cape Point the group went to the top and as one commented, this should be the Southern most tip of Africa with its high cliffs and not Cape Augulhas, truly Sir. Francis Drake was correct this is the most beautiful cape of them all !!!!. After a really good lunch we decided that we will all walk to Cape of Good Hope, the beauty takes your breath away. Our journey had to continue towards the Penguin Colony at Boulders Beach near Simon's Town, and once there all the oooh aahaa and how beautiful we departed along the Coastline back to our Lodge, concluding that with the fine weather it was just one very fine day with many WoW moments.
Day 12
We visited the wine districts of Paarl and Stellenbosch for most of the group it was a scenic drive and an educational moment at the Afrikaans Language Monument, but for two members of the group the last very personalised wine tasting may have been their WoW moment of the whole journey. we raise our glass to the WoW moments we had on tour.
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