South Africa revisited

Crossing the border from Botswana in a kind of desolate area of South Africa. We notice how things are getting colder, some morning there’s even frost on the ground when we wake up. It’s winter in South Africa. I don’t remember much of this last leg of the trip since I’ve started to feel home sick. I’ve been travelling for 4 months now and start to miss the things I have at home, my family and friends. I do remember stopping at some wineries before finally reaching Cape Town again and the fare well party we had on the last days.

We spent some days in Cape Town, doing some sight seeing, shopping and eating at restaurants, the latter was something we rarely did during our time on the road. Packed with a lot of memories of places I’ve been and people I’ve met I finally left Africa for the every day life in Sweden again. And possible new adventures somewhere else.

South Africa

The first part of our journey through South Africa went through Springbok south wards to Langebaan at the Atlantic coast. We stayed there for a couple of days before we continued to Cape Town. This was the end of the line for most of us, but not for me. While most of my travel companions for well over 2 months went home one by one I took the time to explore Cape Town and its surroundings with a girl named Lisa whom I met on a travel forum. We tried wineries in Stellenbosch; Villiera, Laibach & Simonsig to mention a few. We also did shark cage diving in Gaansbai for example.

After about a week it was time to continue the trip with 4x4expedition.se and some new travelers had joined the crew. Via L’Agulhas (which is about as far south you can get on the African continent) and Garden Route to Port Elisabeth and then Addo Elephant Farm. Then we dashed north and slightly east into Lesotho and after that we went via Drakensberg into Eswatini, previously known as Swaziland. Before leaving South Africa for Mozambique we made a stop in the Kruger Park of course.