More April 19 Photos
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After we left the Cango Caves and had a lunch of ostrich burgers, we journeyed to the top of a nearby mountain in the Outeniqua Pass. Bo had no fear of this, taking the VW bus on a one lane road (with several blind corners) up, up and up until we reached "Die Top." Bo said there is hardly ever any traffic on the road so there is no need to worry. The view was spectacular from the top.
Later, we traveled on the N2 (one of S. Africa's national expressways) via the lakes district. The views were again sensational.
Then, by chance, we were on a back road near the lakes and happened to see the famous Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe, a steam locomotive train, that travels between the towns of Knysna and George.
At the end of the day, we viewed Plettenberg Bay from the heights where many, very expensive homes are on the overlooking cliffs.
While there, we viewed the damage to the VW bus from a locust storm we traveled through earlier in the day. The tour company has the vehicles cleaned each night on the tour route and Bo said they had to do a major cleanup that night. The other two pictures are of squatter camps we passed from the road. We saw similar camps throughout S. Africa. Under certain conditions, poor families are able to occupy such sites and erect a very primitive shack. The government has been slowly moving many of these families into more "modern" housing (which we would still regard as primitive) but it will take a long time to make the transition.