The Eastern Cape, with its unspoilt beaches, rolling hills, craggy mountains and massive biodiversity is aptly known as the Adventure Province. This endless natural beauty is what attracted our family to live in Nelson Mandela Bay, where we are literally surrounded by outdoor adventures ripe for the picking.
We have spent the past few years trying to see and do as much as possible as a family in our beautiful city and can now with good authority rate and recommend our top outdoor adventure activities in and around Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay – things to do to suit every adventurous family’s budget.
As avid nature lovers, outdoor junkies and adventure explorers, we are super proud to present our Top 20 adventure activities in our magnificent Nelson Mandela Bay (separated into the Top 5 in each price range):
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Walking through the wilderness with the wind at your back and the sun shining warmly on your face is in our family’s opinion the perfect way to spend a day. The combination of clean air, pure silence, breath-taking views and some healthy cardio works magic on our souls. We are so lucky to be literally surrounded with hiking opportunities and have made it our mission to get out there and discover the trails in and around Nelson Mandela Bay.
Here are four of our favourites so far:
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There are times when you desperately need to laugh out loud. That whooping, shrieking laughter that makes you cry and sends endorphins skipping through your bloodstream- the kind of happy exuberance that lifts your spirits for days after the actual event.
There is one sure way to get even the shyest of introverts yelling and guffawing with gusto and that is at Adrenalin Addo with the highest, longest and fastest double zip line in South Africa. We hollered our way down the zip line a couple of years ago and when we heard about their newest offering, a Superman harness, we knew immediately that this was going to be the best year-end stress reliever possible.
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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.
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.
