I have always liked the idea of mountain biking – cycling up pristine mountain paths and down charming country lanes with a gentle breeze in your face, the blissful silence only broken by the crunching of gravel beneath your tyres and the beating of your heart as it pumps energy to your legs.
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For us, travel is all about the destination rather than the accommodation. We focus on the activities and exploring the location and things to do in an area rather than what bed we sleep in. However, there are certain places with such unique accommodation that the bed becomes the destination all in itself.
We put together this list of weird and wonderful places to stay in the Garden Route with a delightfully quirky road trip in mind – starting at Port Elizabeth and ending in Cape Town. It would take 12-14 days to experience one of the most beautiful parts of the world in the most unique and memorable way and combining all these peculiar places to stay into one trip would be quite frankly phenomenal.
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Addo Elephant National Park recently relaunched its Zuurberg Doringnek hiking trail and we were itching to give it a try. So, we packed a picnic lunch, donned our backpacks and ushered the boys into the car, giving them no option of staying on the couch despite their vehement protests that there is no point to hiking, especially on a Sunday.
We love everything about Addo, and one of all of our absolute favourite spots is Narina Bush Camp in the Zuurberg section. There is a really steep hike up a near vertical valley to a place where you feel on top of the world, and if this was anything to go by, we knew we were in for a treat at Doringnek.
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My name is Sarah and I am an Instagram travel junkie.
I spend hours pouring over travel photos and dreaming of visiting the most Instagram-able destinations, taking my own photos and adding them to Chasing the Rainbow’s Instagram account. The Grand Canyon’s distinctive Horseshoe Bend, Canada’s pale turquoise Lake Louise, the Faroe Islands’ spectacular waterfalls, Victoria Falls’ rainbow in the mist….. there are just so many enviable destinations.
Top of my South African Instagram wish list is the Blyde River Canyon – the greenest canyon in the world. There is a rock that you can sit on with a view out over the Blyderivierspoortdam with its distinctive azure colour water surrounded by forest clad cliffs and huge rocky buttresses. My sparkly #rainbowtakkies would look oh-so-delicious right there on that rock.
I used to visit Mpumulanga’s Panorama Route every year way back before it was even called that. My parents owned timeshare at Crystal Springs Mountain Lodge and we did a yearly pilgrimage to the area, panning for gold in Pilgrims’ Rest, eating pancakes at Harries in Graskop, checking out all the incredible waterfalls – from Mac Mac to Lisbon, Berlin, Maria Shires, Bridal Veil and Lone Creek – and viewpoints at The Pinnacle, God’s Window, Bourke’s Luck Potholes and the Three Rondawels. But for some reason, in over a decade of visiting the area, I had never seen or heard of that famous view over the Blyde Rivier dam until Instagram popped it into my feed.
So when planning where to go in the week before our trip to the Kruger National Park, and looking for a timeshare swap in the area, Crystal Springs Mountain Lodge seemed like a great idea. Ralph and I had been there and done most of that, but it would be awesome to show it all to the kids with the added benefit of being able to capture it all on Instagram and get that sparkly rainbow nation takkie photo at Blyde River Canyon.
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It’s Travelstart’s birthday and to celebrate they are having a birthday flight sale from 27-31 August 2018. If you are like me, the word “SALE” always produces a little rush of adrenalin and combining this with the word “flight” will literally make you go weak at the knees.
Our wanderlist is longer than my arm, and discounted flights really help when planning where to go with a family of 5 plus 1. Added to our excitement is the possibility of flying our son home from university in Pretoria more often to accompany us on our local travel adventures. I reckon we have already contributed significantly to Port Elizabeth being named as one of the Top 5 domestic flight routes in 2018 (based on an analysis of more than 800,000 trips booked on Travelstart.co.za since the start of 2017).
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