Eastern Cape

Our next stop was Plettenberg Bay, where my parents had another friend we were able to visit (she lives in a beautiful spot and runs a horseback riding company called Equitrailing). She mentioned that we were right around the corner from an elephant sanctuary and a place called Monkeyland, and suggested we stop in and see them while in the area. We were definitely impressed with the elephants! It was a good way for us to see them up close (way closer than we would ever have expected to). We had lunch at Monkeyland (luckily, they weren’t quite as intimidating as the baboons at Cape Point!).

Then we were off to the Eastern Cape and stopped for the night in Grahamstown, a university town where we had dinner at a British pub called the Rat and Parrot. It was neat seeing that students in South Africa seem to like the same things as students in Canada (and we saw a large table of guys trying desperately to split up the bill properly with the correct change, etc.). A very familiar scene, for sure!

We got to stop along the way to see some beaches (there was a very nice beach area at Plettenberg Bay) but the weather wasn’t hot enough to compel us to jump in.