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South Africa has always been on our bucket list, the nature and beauty of the country had a magnificent pull and we finally decided to book our holiday. Deciding on a self drive holiday instead of a tour, being adventurous we thought that this would be easy enough. Our plan was to fly to East London and drive to Cape Town, covering the famous Garden Route in our limited time to the country. Arriving in East London it was pouring down with rain, non stop for hours, our first stop was Addo Elephant Park. Leaving the airport in our small rental car we started to get second thoughts about this self drive idea. Our first sight of the country was low cost housing and we were scared our car was going to break down as we started hearing horrible things on the news lately. Luckily the houses cleared quickly and we were on the open road. Following our GPS to our accommodation, it took us off the main road onto a “farm” road, not being any the wiser we followed the GPS thinking our destination is just around the next corner. Well were we surprised, not much later we turned onto a very narrow “farm” road that just kept on going up, mountain on the one side and a very steep slope on the other. There were pools of water in the road, we accidentally went through one and it was like a massive wave that came over the car, only later did we learn that these pools of water are called pot holes and should be avoided at all cost. The road is narrow and we have no where to turn around so we keep going, hoping that either the rain or the road will stop. As we were about to give up hope we reach a car broken down after hitting one of these “pot holes” in the middle of the road, with help from the local driver we managed to get around his broken car and finally reach our accommodation around the next corner. What a relief, with a warm welcome from the staff we were showed to our rooms where we could finally have warm shower and get out of the pouring rain. We stayed at the Addo Elephant park for 2 days, enjoying the animals and sightseeing. It stopped raining the next day and the sun finally came to show us its face making the rest of the stay enjoyable. After Addo we took the road to Tshisikama Village, still on the Garden Route, what an amazing little village, only consisting of about 10 shops everything is walking distance and so many activities to choose from, from a walk in the forest to mountain biking, zip lining or paddling on the lake. Unfortunately, we only stayed here for 1 night. The rest of our stay was just as adventurous travelling back to Cape Town. We had a couple of towns on our list that we wanted to visit, and following the GPS we were taken on quite a couple of “Farm Roads”. We definitely learned our lesson that next time we come to South Africa to book a bigger vehicle, one that can handle to “farm road” as our little car, together with our nervous driving was a bad combination. The people in this country are extremely friendly and very helpful, we met some wonderful people that were too eager to tell us more of their great country, and give some advice on places to see in our limited time here. We finally reached Cape Town Airport and our holiday ended. On our last day in the country the rain came to bid us a farewell. it is impossible to see everything in two weeks, and we will definitely be back as we only managed to see the Garden Route (many locals call this the most beautiful part).