Road Trip from Centurion to Cape Town and back via Durban
and Port Elizabeth
We’ve been to Durban and the surrounding areas and driven
the Garden Route but we’ve never explored the East Coast and have been told
that’s where we find the most spectacular beaches.
It’s a very long journey with an average of 7 hours a day on
the road, but it’s a must. Locals warn you of the dangers on the road, people
and animals. It is constant, from goats wandering across the roads to cattle
delaying the traffic and not just the side roads but the National roads also.
I was told in advance about the Xhosa peoples green houses,
today I’m assuming they’ve got a job lot of various shades of green paint, but
originally their houses were decorated by extracting the green from copper in
the mud.
We didn’t spend a lot of time in any of the places to
explore but what we saw from our brief stop over in Ramsgate, Coffee Bay, visit
to Port Alfred we really liked it and plan to return another time.
Coffee Bay involved a 2 hour, return, drive on an unpaved
road for 75kms. I think they should put signs up to say ‘no pot holes for the
next 100 yards, otherwise they’re everywhere’
The trip to Port Alfred took us on a detour off the N2 of
around 40 minutes. We drove through a range of small villages full of bars,
restaurants, craft shops and small cheese and dairy farms, to the coast. It’s
obviously quite windy there judging by the size of the sand dunes and despite
the constant drizzle we’d had for the past 3 days, the air was warm and we took
a walk on the beach collecting shells from the Indian Ocean.
