The adventures of Sanna

by Asanda Jonga (South Africa)

A leap into the unknown South Africa

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I’m Xhosa I am an outdoorsy person,very social,adventurous and I love learning new cultures and meeting new people from different cultures.I enjoy being outdoors,the ocean,beach ultimate frisbeeing,Hiking to places mostly backpackers.Iprefer staying in backpackers because of my social personality.Hotels and BnBs I don’t mind but they don’t have the same vibe as they can get quite serious for me.You can’t just easily go chill with a stranger at a table have dinner and chat like you’ve know each other forever like the backpackers.i like networking.The hiking is much more nicer too in terms of fitness as I’m a sporty person.However I don’t particularly like the long crazy hikes.im more into 30-1hr type of person,Also camping is fun but carrying tents for hours on my back is not what I enjoy it takes the fun and the excitement out of you.I have been to most backpackers in SA but wish to see more of the beautiful places in our country.i still have a lot to see.I enjoy the outdoor activities like canoeing,zip lining,I do some trail runs sometimes and have a lot on my list to still do.I love taking nice out doors pictures of the beautiful nature.I have always dreamed of being a travel influencer or just being paid to travel but I figured there was no such thing as that especially with a background as mine(black taxi is real)I have 3sister and a mother to feed lol I was just dreaming.I love and breath traveling in my heart I want to see the world.I have been to a few provinces in SA but have not seen all the nice and beautiful hidden spots even in the ones I’ve been to.I still want to go back and explore more of those.Let alone the ones I have not even been to.This year I wish to go to Mpumalanga province.Top of my list is seeing our beautiful continent as a whole.I have done Mozambique Ponto Du Ouro,Maputo,Swazilanda,Accra Ghana,Guinea Conakry and there’s a lot to see like the mighty beautiful Kenya,Zambia,Namibian deserts and a million more places to see.These dreams seem impossible for a deep rural girl like me even though I feel like giving up on my dream being from this background encourages and pushes me even more to follow my dream so I can be an inspiration to other girls from the same background-They can live their dreams through me and know they can also have it.I don’t know how and when will I make it to my dream but I know I will and I am very faithful to that coz I go by the motto of”how will you ever have a dream come through if you don’t ever dream”Living the dream-This motto makes me smile when I look back at the places I’ve been that I never thought I’d ever be.These trips help me to even practice my photography skills as I love taking good pictures and share them especially showing off my beautiful Eastern Cape home-The Wild Coast.I so badly want to just get it out there so people in the cities can see what they missing out on while they all stuck in the busyness of the cities.The rural area are too beautiful and there’s no stress of traffics,shops etc here just the cows and sheep on the road that you need to be careful haha and some real deep porthole.Local spaza shops are nice and quiet no crazy queues here that is why the city people need to visit such places more for some stress relief.Get a few friends to go with you-even buy fresh fish from local fishermen.I deserve this I believe this is my prayer being answered.This is what I’ve always prayed for.I want to live my dream a reality.Spread the good vibes all around the world.I want to go see other places outside of Africa too one .I have never been out of Africa.I do need to learn other languages though apart from just my home language and English as I was once in a bit problem when I went to a Portuguese and French speaking country only but it was part of my adventure,Was very interesting and a learning curve and my very first time to where I have no clue what everyone was says around me.