My Life: Knysna and Lake Pleasant

We woke up on Wednesday Sept. 17th at 5:30, that's A.M. people, to go on our last game drive. We had pretty much seen almost everything so our goal was to finally get a glimpse of the mother cheetah and her two cubs. We had a pretty empty car this morning.

When we got to the boma with the cheetahs we were pleasantly surprised to see all three of them. The mother was smaller than I expected but the two cubs were adorable. They were very playful and looked like two puff balls.

These two girls were our waitresses at Kichaka. They both speak the clicky tongue language as well as English. It was cool to hear them pronounce their names.

We had to leave Kichaka that afternoon and we were sooooo sad to have to leave but we were excited for our drive to Lake Pleasant and Knysna. We drove along the southern coast of Africa and we stopped at this burger place that was supposed to be the best burger in S.A. I don't know if they have ever had an American burger, but if that was the best I feel bad for them.

We also stopped at this bridge that is the world's highest bungy jump and we got to watch someone jump. We didn't have time to do it ourselves but I don't think I would have anyway, so I was glad for an excuse not to!

We found this spot of concrete that was in the shape of Africa. It was kind of like people spotting the Virgin Mary in a potato chip! We are pointing to South Africa on the "map!"

Here is the view from our balcony out to Lake Pleasant. I don't remember what this orange blossoming tree was called but they were everywhere because it is Spring over there. I loved how vibrant the orange was, this picture doesn't do it justice.

That night we had a traditional African BBQ called a "Braai." It was delicious, we had steak and sausage, lamb and broiled potatoes. We also had a delicious pudding (it was totally a cake but they called it pudding) and EXCELLENT diet coke! We also got to wear our traditional kaftans.