From Cape Town we drove to Cape Agulhas, the most southern tip of Africa, and the dividing line between the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Good chance for a photo op.

 After a night on the coast we headed inland to a town called Oudtshoorn to see Cango caves.  The caves were definitely worth a visit. They're made up of many chambers of all different sizes, which are filled with beautiful limestone formations. We went on the 'adventure tour' which took us deep into the cave system to its smallest chambers where we had to squeeze through two very small openings named the devil's chimney and the post box. For the post box you had to slide head first through a narrow, 27cm high space. Good times! Tourists who don't meet the girth requirements actually get turned down for this type of tour (not surprising). A question I am sure that most people ask...

Back to the coast for a night at Jeffrey's Bay, not much to write home about there. After one night we headed to Addo Elephant Park for a self driving safari.  We saw many elephants pushing their way through the vegetation or spraying themselves with water at the watering holes. They were not hard to find.  Such beautiful, intelligent creatures. The park also houses many other African creatures, but the elephants were the highlight.  After the park we had one night in East London before making our way to a place which was off the beaten path, actually there was no path to it, Bulungula Lodge, on South Africa's Wild Coast.

Bulungula lodge is an fare trade accomodation (40% of the proceeds go to the community) consisting of huts set up along the Xhora River. We really appreciated the eco friendly approach (compostable toilets, solar power etc) and found it interesting how the living room acted like a community center for the local community to hang out in. The pristine beaches scattered with beautiful shells, unbelievelable stars lit skies and very friendly community added to a very memorable stay. The Wild Coast of South Africa is a very unique place since there is no major highway that travels along the coast between Port St. Johns and Port Elizabeth, hundreds of kilometres of coast line.  This has allowed the area to remain very un-touched.  It was a great to see rural villages continuing right up to the beaches.  We had two short nights there before our second stop on the Wild Coast, Coffee Bay.