Best known for its infamous bridges – one being SA’s highest narrow gauge railway bridge and the other known as the “bridge of death” due to its popularity for suicide – Van Stadens Gorge also offers incredible hiking and, as we recently discovered, some pretty amazing bouldering and rock climbing as well.
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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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Groendal Wilderness is a verdant, craggy little piece of pristine paradise, just North of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. We had been longing to head out there and take a look and explore some if its hiking trails. The area is known for its rugged beauty and boasts a few multi-day hiking trails and one day trail – the Lower Blindekloof. With just one sunny Sunday free, we packed our bags and headed out early to explore the crags and mountain pools.
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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.
