Okay, so it's been roughly two weeks since my return from South Africa, and I'm just getting around to writing about it now. Not that it's any excuse, but I returned to work the very next day after returning.
The weather in Cape Town was not great. Autumn was moving in a bit early, and we had a number of gray, damp and foggy days. Had it been my first visit, I would have been sad. Cape Town is such a visual city, and the scenery is such a large part of being there. It didn't ruin our time, though; we kept busy, saw friends, and spent a lot of time with Paul's mother. We were fortunate enough to be there for her 75th birthday, and we celebrated it along with some close family members.
Because this was a longer visit than usual, we decided to take a couple of days to hit the road, leave Cape Town and travel to what is known as South Africa's Garden Route. We left the Western Cape and traveled east, parallel to the southern coast of the continent. For most of the drive, the ocean is not even visible; instead, it's farm after farm after farm (I don't think I've ever seen so many goats and sheep in my life), but as we neared the Garden Route, closer to the Eastern Cape, the highway took us along the ocean. The views are incredible. Waves crashing against huge rocks. (It was all very inviting, but the only time I went in was back in Cape Town; I just had to set foot into the Indian Ocean again, if only to say I'd done it.)
At the Garden Route, we stayed two nights at a rented flat in Knysna. The flat was on the water, at a place called Knysna Quays. It's like a scaled-down version of Cape Town's V&A Waterfront. We practically had Knysna to ourselves, and, the weather, unlike Cape Town's, was spectacular.
It's a good thing, too, because without the good weather, I never would have had the opportunity to interact with many species of monkeys; walk, feed and bond with elephants; and visit the Tsitsikamma Forest, which is an absolutely spectacular sight.
No matter how much I write about our trip to the Garden Route -- and our visit to Cape Town in general, for that matter -- my descriptions will never do it justice.
So, check out my pictures!
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