Experience so far...

Arrived in Cape Town after a bum numbing 12 hours on the plane - I'm dreading the flight home already!
We have three weeks in Cape Town altogether, and the first week is a kind of chill out get to know each other week, so i thought it would be slow. But from the moment we got here we've been busy. The first and second days we took trips around the beaches of the town and visited boulder beach, which is a beach that's been taken over by...Penguins!! Thousands of tiny SA penguins blocking most of the sand of this beach! We also visited Cape Point which is the most southerly most point of Africa.
We then took a two day trip to the river Breede, which is about 3 hours north of Cape Town in the heart of the bush. We stayed in a camp on the river which was the most amazing place, the temp was 35 degrees and in the water it was 24! The shacks we were staying in were tiny thatched huts with two beds and a toilet, with outdoor showers overlooking the fantastic view! It had a trampoline, kayaks, rope swings and zip lines into the water, rock jumps as high as you could stomach and a 24hr bar!! And with most drinks costing 70p it got used at all hours!
On our first kayaking trip we saw a snake swimming across the river exactly where we had been swimming and our guide told us it was a puff adder. If it bites you, you have 8 hours to amputate the bitten area before the acid peels back your skin resulting in death...nice. That night the girls also found garden spiders in their shower and on their door, these aren't poisonous, but my god they look like tarantulas!! Vince said that it only going to get worse the further North we go, so you can imagine that we all can't wait...
We're back in Cape Town now and the backpack hostel we're staying in (its called "the backpack") feels like the ritz compared - electricity in our rooms and everything! Well apart from the 2 hour town blackout each day by the government to conserve power for the Football world cup in 2011 apparently! Everyone moves to the rooftops and sings! Anyway we're climbing Table Mountain today which is going to be a burnfest for all of our skin...the sun just doesn't take any notice of factor 60 and bellow.
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xxx Enzo xxx