South Africa

In April my boyfriend and I made a little travel dream come true and flew to South Africa. Our plan was to travel the country by hire car driving from Cape Town to Johanneburg ("Jo'burg"). We decided for South Africa as we heard/saw on pictures that it had a beautiful, varied countryside with a veery long coast (I/we love to be by the sea) and an enormous and multifaceted cultural heritage as well as an interesting and complex history. Our expectations were not only met, but exceeded. We experienced welcoming people, nice hostels and restaurants at good value for money and got many wonderful unforgettable impressions and memories. Here YOU can get an impression:

Ah yes, I almost forget to tell you about the little tohubohu at the end of our trip. When leaving the next to last stop of our journey, the beautiful coffee bay a place almost completely isolated from modern telecommunication we got to know that a vulcano erruption in Europe might prevent us from flying back to Germany. First we didn't understand what was going on as we couldn't imagine a vulcano erruption in Germany or the bordering countries, but with every new piece of information we could gather (thanks to our wonderful couch surfing hosts at Pietermaritzburg) it became more likely that we really wouldn't be able to fly back as planned. When we got to know that we could either come to Joburg airport every day to be put on a waiting list to take cancelled places on the fully booked planes the days after our flight was cancelled or rebook for the next date where thereare secure places (which was 10 days later) we decided for the last option and spontaneously booked a flight to Namibia where my good friend Anne was working at an development aid project. So we celebrated my birthday with her in Namibia and got some more great impressions and experiences from another beautiful African country.