South Africa: Day 13

Some of the valleys that you can find through the garden route

We left Port Elisabeth early in the morning and headed towards The Crags, on our way there we were going to pass by Tsitsikamma, a massive nature park which is often called “The garden of the garden route” (The garden route was the route we were following from Port Elisabeth to Wilderness and even further).

We decided to take a little stop in the Stormsriver village, a little town at one of the entrances to the Tsitsikamma forest.

We knew that there was a canopy tour through the forest and we wanted to join one of these tours; 600 metres longs (all together that is) 10 platforms and up to 30 metres high.

 In the queue to book the tour we got informed that there was no availability today or tomorrow (other than at 5 in the morning) so we wandered around the town for a bit. We eventually went back to the canopy tour to see if they knew any other canopy tours around the area, one of the desk workers was about to give us a number when another one excitedly told us that a family of 6 hadn't shown up to the tour, meaning that we could go on the tour that was about to leave.

We rushed ourselves to get ready and hopped on the van towards the starting point. 

We had two awesome guides who encouraged us to do crazy things while on the canopy tour, he told me to jump of a few platforms instead of the regular sit and go down. It was amazing!

The BnB's lake

After the canopy tour we continued our way to the BnB, once there we got a little tour around the house, it was massive and had an incredible infinity pool, looking over an impressive lake.

The BnB was a bit in the middle of nowhere though and they didn't do dinner nor lunch, so for dinner she suggested a BnB/Guesthouse no too far from where we were. So we went to this BnB for dinner and it looked amazing, one of the nicest places to stay that I had sen during the trip, but the manager there told us that they had been completely full booked since a few months ago, anyhow we proceeded to the restaurant part and had a menu with "steenbok" meat or hake as a main course.

Back at our own BnB we didn't really do much more, so we had a look at some flyers about things we could do the following day.