I got to slide down the sliding rock at Qunu where Madiba and his friends (as well as many local kids before and after him) played as children. Some of you seem confused so let me explain. On a recent trip up the Wild Coast I stopped at the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu and was taken on a tour by one of the guides. Part of the tour takes one about 200 meters away from the museum buildings to a couple…
Doesn't this just shout out Wild Coast to you? A winding dirt road, rolling hills dotted with huts and villages and a beautiful rugged coastline second to none. If you have never been there to experience and see this for yourself, then you really must make a plan cause you are missing out.The photo was taken on the road between Coffee Bay and Hole in the Wall. #experienceeastcape
The first time I traveled through the old Transkei in the Eastern Cape I could barely keep my eyes on the road. The rolling hills covered in villages broken up by communal grazing for cattle, mielies fields and other vegetable patches just had me mesmerized. For most travelling to the Wild Coast the actual coast is what it's all about. For me the journey to get there is just as exciting
One of the first things I did when I knew I was getting to explore the Wild Coast a little bit was to check if there will be any Geocaches on the route I was going to follow. Although there weren't a whole lot I made sure I saved those I would be able to do on my phone before hitting the road. Driving along the gravel road to Wavecrest Hotel I had a look to see where the closest cache was…
The sun low over the horizon. A slight sea mist along the coast. Small waves lapping the shoreline. Not a cloud in the sky.The start of a beautiful day on the Wild Coast
The Wild Coast has always been one of those within reach yet just a tad too far away destinations for me. Living in Port Elizabeth I have travelled down the Garden Route and through the western part of the Eastern Cape quite extensively, but the Great Kei River beyond East London was like a hurdle I just didn't get to cross that easily. That was until I planned a short Wild Coast road trip as part of a journey to Durban. After my…
Most of Port Elizabeth's monuments are located around Central and the city centre. There are a few outside of those areas though. One example is the Piet Retief monument and another is the Cenotaph in front of the Walmer Townhall. I stopped at the Cenotaph with Drama Princess and snapped a few pics while she was checking it out. The Cenotaph contains the names of the men from Walmer who died during the two world wars. Why does Walmer have…
The Wild Coast. Creates pictures in one's head of rugged coastlines, rough seas, shipwrecks and storms... Or in this case a sunrise over the Nxaxo River Mouth on a windless morning.
The Wild Coast is literally just a couple of stone skips away from where I am based in Port Elizabeth, yet except for quick visits to Morgan Bay and Trennereys I've never explored it properly. Some people even told me that those are situated on the Mild Coast and that I would have to venture further north to be able to properly say that I've been to the Wild Coast. In May circumstances allowed me to spend a few days…
Every year on the last weekend of June, thousands of festinos make their way to the small Sundays River Valley town of Kirkwood for the annual Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees. The Wildsfees, in it's 14th years already, brings some of the biggest names in the Afrikaans music industry to the town and combines it with a weekend of entertainment, activities, food and stalls. Over the weekend in the region of 50 000 people attended the festival with over 20 000 people in the grounds on the Saturday…