Last night we overnighted in a friendly hostel in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, ostrich capital of SA.They had reliable internet connection, mouth-watering triple chocolate brownies (with no nuts!) and a cook-your-own-ostrich-egg breakfast.
Did you know one ostrich egg is equivalent to 24 chicken eggs???
After checking out, we spent the morning underground, deep in the depths of the While Fiona stayed above ground, the rest of us went down and walked around several chambers, admiring some very impressive stalagmites and stalactytes.
We then got to the "adventure" part where we had to crawl on our bellies and contort our bodies in awkwards ways in order to get through tiny holes and passageways.
With some pushing, pulling and constant encouragement, we all made it through! Not without breaking quite a sweat though!
After a quick lunch - of ostrich of course - we took a quick detour to drive "South Africa's most beautiful pass": Immense and stunning in nature and architecture, it is hard to imagine how a road was ever conceived to be a viable solution to get between the mountain ranges.
We passed an intensely hot afternoon at the
I cannot claim to have had a pleasant time here as it was just way too hot for my liking.
I do remember seeing some beautiful tigers and cheetahs, but even the crocodiles looked as exhausted from the heat as I felt. It took a lot of effort not to jump the fence and join him in his little pond.Back to George we went that evening, just in time to dine in one of the few restaurants open on a Sunday.
The next morning, while our guests were to fly directly to Kruger National Park for some real safari game drives, Matt and I will be driving back home to Cape Town.What an amazing 5 days on the Garden Route. I think i need a holiday after today, harhar.
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