South Africa's Wild, Wild Coast: Part 3 (With Donkeys)

24 June 2015

Read Part 1. Read Part 2.

Our epic trip to Dwesa Nature Reserve wasn’t the end of our Wild Coast adventure; we still had another stop at the Amapondo Backpacker Lodge in Port St. Johns.

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Five Bloggers Rock Port Elizabeth

17 November 2013

I just spent four days in Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay, with four other bloggers. It rocked.

First 4

The first photo I shot in Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Left to right: Rachel of Bush-bound Girl, Meruschka of Mzansi Girl, Heather of 2Summers, and Dianne of Afribird. Theresa of Fine Places is missing from the photo – she arrived a few minutes later.

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Scenes From the Eastern Cape

24 July 2012

I’m in the Eastern Cape at the moment. The Eastern Cape is one of my favorite South African provinces; the people are friendly, the pace is slow, and the scenery is beautiful in a non-dramatic kind of way. It’s seriously cold though, especially in the evening. There’s frost on my car windshield in the morning, and the mountains are capped with snow. (By the way, ice-scrapers don’t exist here so forget about scraping the windshield. You just turn your car on and wait for the frost to melt.)

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