Sunday, June 21, 2009

Day 6- 4x4 Ride, More Bungee and Day 1 In Capetown

Today was an extremely busy day! After breakfast, we piled into massive 4x4 trucks and began our off-road drive back to the National Park. The ride was surprisingly peaceful and offered more beautiful views of the surrounding landscape. Once we arrived back at the park, we said our goodbyes to our guides Ian and Stanley and quickly drove down the road to the bungee location yet again. This time, Mrs. Howard, Mr. Cole, Nolutando and Hurst jumped! The weather was much nicer than before, making the jump slightly less terrifying. After the successful jumps, and a trip to the gift store for a shirt and their DVD's, we rushed back to PE to unpack, re-pack and catch a 6:30 p.m. flight to Capetown. Luckily, we made the flight with time to spare.
Capetown was at the complete other end of the social spectrum from PE and the Dolphin Trail. The city is extremely European and full of life. Unfortunately, the streets were crowded with tourists, locals, children begging for money, drug dealers, and prostitutes sending some of us into culture shock. Despite the overwhelming energy seeping from "Long Street", where our hotel, Daddy Longlegs, was located, we managed to find a place to eat dinner. Mr. MacAdoo urged us to try a dish that we had never had before and thankfully, everything proved to be delicious. Jon especially enjoyed his crocodile. We were all excited to go back to the hotel and relax in our amazing rooms.
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2 comments:

  1. Nicolas,
    That was very well written. Great job. Your brother is getting ready for Choate. Could you e-mail me Ben Gott's telephone number and could you please e-mail him and brief regarding Zander's trip. He arrives on the 28th.
    I love you,
    Mom

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  2. Thanks for sharing your South Africa trip. Nice post. I am surely going to visit soon as it is one of the beautiful place on earth. Useful for me that you told about national park, beautiful landscape and hotel. I heard that very excited places like museum,gauteng,gold reef city,johannesburg,pretoria,rare species of lions,rare species of pandas,robben island. For more details refer South Africa

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