is damn freeeezing and raining out so am huddled here watching the royal wedding and have decided to be self-indulgent once again and blogggg a bit while watching. so am back in cape town now after best holiday ever with linda and angelee! we realized our trip could be segmented into 4 chapters so for now i'll recap chapters 3 n 4 while alls still fresh in my wee mind.
ch. 3 girls without a clue go on safari in kruger national park. so we were off! we knew we wanted to go on safari and we knew we were going to kruger but that was about the extent of it so everything was wicked cus we had no idea what to expect. we stayed in 2 rest camps, berg-en-dal and satara and we had the sweetest little bungalows. we'd spend our days driving around in our little shitty white hyundai hatchback, vehicle of choice for proper safari-goers you know. soundtrack for our game drives comprised mostly of the lion king soundtrack and britney spears' 'till the world ends'. pretty sure the people we'd pull up next to asking, 'heeeey so what do you guys seeee???' weren't too impressed.
2 nights we went on proper sunset/night game drives and the first one we went on was one of the most stressful things ever. me n angelee had two of the big search lights so we were supposed to be scanning for animals and oh god i've never strained and concentrated so much in my whole life (i also found nothing). but in the end, success! over the course of a few days we spotted the 'big 5' and so much more! we saw male, female and baby lions, buffalo, a million impala, buffalo, bushbabies, giraffes, elephants, vultures, lotsa birdies, other stufffff....and on the very last day after pretty much giving up home, we saw the elusive leapord!
ch.4 mozambique! we took a greyhound from nelspruit into maputo and was so damn hectic at the border. we were told we could get our visas at the border but then at the bus station they told us that's not so. luckily our bus would wait for us but we were told to fucking run like mad from border to border to get our visas cus it would take a bit of time. oh goddddd i need to like work out or something, i swear me n linda got about 1/3 of the way and just could not make it. it was a sad scene i tell you. aaaah but am so in love with mozambique!
maputo to me is like a cross between macau and delhi with bits of cambodia tossed in, all decrepit n super dirty but all sorts of awesome. we spent most of our time in tofo which was amazing. too bad it takes a harrowing 9 hr local bus ride where your ass goes numb, your knees are smushed up against the seat in front of you, you're crowded in with people and random shit like bags of onions and you only get to go pee once. but worth it! we stayed in a sweet lil' 'A-frame chalet' in bamboozi and spent our days mostly lying around on the beach or roaming the local market. we did go on an ocean safari which was something something. i thought we were going on some casual snorkelling outing but not at all. was more like we were on a little boat for almost 2 hours looking for whale sharks as i tried not to hurl everywhere cus i get dangerously sea sick. but we DID get to see a whale shark so that was cool. beforehand they had told us not to be on top of the whale shark, blah blah blah and so of course as soon as i jumped in the water, i was right on top of the animal!
otherwise, had some seriously great times in tofo, met great people, ate great food, drank local spirits, danced our little hearts out. we spent a solid ten hours one night at a place called dino's who even does shit like that. we had a super yummy home cooked meal made for us as angelee had been whinging on about her search for matapa which we didn't even know what it was really just that it was a veggie dish and finally we got it then plus the best chicken ever. plus how awesome to just roll into a dude's house and get fed a sweet meal? then it was back to maputo for the girls' last night in africa and conveniently enough it was angelee's birthday.
shit her birthday was funny! for one, we discovered local gin which costs less than a $1 for a bottle. then one of my top 3 favourite people on this continent, tinashe, took us to this highlarrrious club in the red light district. it turned out to be a full on sex show complete with a dude being led around on a leash fully naked and some explicit sex acts. we were the only foreign chicks there plus possibly the only non-sex trade workers, can't say for sure though, and we were front row hootin it up. then awesomely enough, this was followed by slow dancing on the stage. by the end of the night, we were just loving it, all these locals were on the stage/dance floor basically dancing with themselves in the mirrors. then lights on, we're still there, of course. so obsessed with mozambique. best holiday!
