South Africa: Update to day 12

For the 9^th and 10^th day we stayed in a little private park, but being so little they didn't do any game drives in the park itself. You did have a little trail that you could follow but not much more.

With our dinner on Christmas day we got some Christmas crackers with very, very lame jokes, nevertheless I thought that it was a lovely detail. 

The 10^th day we went to Sodwana bay, a protected area where you can see beautiful coral reefs, if the ocean decides not to be as wild as it was the we were there.

Sofie and Shadow *.*

The morning of the 11^th   we had to say goodbye to the lodge, and Sofie was devastated because of it, the reason being: she would never see the two friends she had made ever again: Shadow and Cooper (the two dogs of the lodge's owner) 

Once everyone said goodbye to the doggies we left in direction of Durban, one of the biggest cities of the country, and it is situated at the east side. We were staying in a little BnB and it was very close to the northern part of the city: Umhlanga.

It was obviously the tourist area: Lots of places to have dinner, a few sports bars, massive buildings Benidorm style, loads of beautiful cars: Porches, Maserati, Lamborghini, you name it and they probably drove it there and last but not least an incredible long beach with soft white sand. 

We went for dinner in a place called Havana: It specialized in, you guessed it: steaks. It was wonderful.

So we where at the morning of the 12^th , our last morning on the east side as we where leaving by plane from Durban to Port Elisabeth.

Once we started boarding we saw the plane we had: a CRJ 701,  a little plane which looked super cool, and by the way, was very spacious inside, Ryanair could learn something of these guys.

When we arrived in Port Elisabeth, we where a bit shocked, everything changed, the houses where big and modern, and the town's streets wide. It looked like the typical florida or california town you see in the movies. No chance that you'll see any wildlife around here. At the guest house, the manager gave us a few tips about things we could do in town, so we decided to go walk through town to find some of these things, we went to a little restaurant at the beach and eventually found this big shopping centre which the manager told us about. Sofie got her first English book there, I wonder if she will finish it.

That night we went to a restaurant, which was also recommended by the lodge's manager, the special thing about it was the design, it was first line and it looked like you where sitting in a cruise ship, on top of that, the girls serving you where dressed up in a Greek style, resembling the Greek mythology I'd say.