Driving the Garden Route. Day 2.

So - to our delight - we survived the night at the scary hostel in the middle of nowhere. Our German host made us a homemade breakfast of dessert crepes which was splendid. And we were off. When initially planning the trip, we wanted to go to an ostrich farm and ride them. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time and opted to hit up the other "must see" on our list, the Cango Caves. The caves were very cool. We did the 'Standard Tour' because of our time limits. So it was a nice leisurely walk through some amazing limestone formations.

The Cango Caves also offered The 'Adventure Tour', which sounded fun. You went deeper into the caves and, at points, had to crawl on your belly and all fours. Our Standard Tour guide told us an interesting story. Apparently, an overweight woman had tried to go on the tour. The people collecting tickets told her that it wasn't advisable that she do the tour because it would be unsafe. The woman became upset and tried to blame their denial on the color of her skin. Eventually, they allowed her on the tour, but advised that if she couldn't fit through a crevice, she would have to wait. So she went on the tour and at the second narrowing, she couldn't fit. She was told to wait and the rest of the tour went deeper into the cave. The woman then tried to fit through the narrowing on her own, slipped and got stuck. The woman was stuck in the cave for 15 hours. The worse part: the other people on the tour were stuck deeper in the cave because the woman was blocking the only way out. And it was very humid in the cave. Eventually, with muscle relaxants, they were able to extricate the woman. I would've been so pissed...

So, after the cave tour, we continued our journey to Port Elizabeth to catch our evening flight. We stopped in Knysna, a cute beach town known for oysters, for a lunch of oysters. We made it to the airport 3 hours before our flight, enough time to grab some dinner and catch a Spain game on the tv.

It was the next 24 hour period that was the worse part of the trip....