South Africa 2
I am home now but thought I would update, seeing as I didn't do that much before. The day after the last post, the diving was still delayed. We ended up geting moved from our orriginal room in Breakerview to a bigger one without a beach view. We decided to Hire (rent) a car and we ended up going to a place called Oribi Gorge. One the way there we got lost a few times, almost going to Durban during the first scenic ruite. Oribi Gorge ended up being a beautiful drive up the mountain. Little huts where everywhere. It was crazy to see the people dressed so nice, boys with the backwards hats just like you would see walking the streets of canada, except you would see them crawl out of the clay huts. Homes where either made of clay or brick, mostly brick. On the hills if alot of the homes made of Brick didn't have roofs. When we got to Oribi Gorge we first got something to eat. The inviroment was amzing. We sat on big fluffy couches outside overlooking the forest. After food we drove around and made our way to the big 5 site. There I decided to do the swing jump. The swing there is the largest in the world and is at the top of a water fall 100 meters high. You have to walk down this metal cage ladder then get straped to safety cables. Gerri pushed me forward so I would go first, the brat. When I looked down I though, what the heck am I doing? The man there was very nice, I told him he might have to push me. The count down started then what do you know I felt 2 hands pushing me right off the cliff. There was an outline of a body at the bottom to make matters worse. Wow though it was a crazy feeling falling then being slowly pulled back up. If we had no though of money we would do it again. After we walked around to the table over hang. You can see where we jumped and baboon castle really well. We started walking around when I heard rustling in the bushes, scared me until a deer jumped out and ran away. We got back to the main hut and got a few things from the gift shop.


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