Day 17 - Journey to Addo

The journey took us about 4 hours to get from Cintsa to Addo. We drove through mountain landscapes and went up and down high altitudes. 

We stopped off in a large town called Grahamstown to grab some lunch and this was the first place that I have really felt unsafe since I arrived in South Africa. The amount of rubbish and litter as you drive into these towns is unbelievable. The government don’t seem to do regular refuse collections and so you will literally drive past mountains of rubbish piled up on the sides of roads and down alleyways. There were a lot of beggars who literally enveloped the bus the minute we turned up. We stuck together as we walked around the supermarket but were very aware that we were being followed and there were people keeping an eye on us. We quickly boarded the truck and were off. Thankfully!

We arrived in Addo about 3 o’clock and took ourselves off for a game drive in the truck, it had started raining and Addo had actually cancelled the night drive that some people were booked on as heh had said seeing any animals in rain would be a miracle as they all hide. During our own game drive we spotted an elephant chomping away at a bush in the distance but that was about it. We have another drive tomorrow morning so hopefully will see more then! 

We put our tents up in the rain - on the most depressing things to do in life I’ve now learned and us three girls headed straight to the restaurant and ordered a lovely bottle of rosé for £1.30, don’t mind if I do! We then sat and chatted whilst we watched the sunset, headed back for dinner and then braced ourselves for the night to come!