Don’t drink the water
When one goes to visit a Zulu community, it would be best if he or she does not drink the water. Unfortunately, this is what we learned a couple of weeks ago. What happened to us can be referred to as the Zulu plague. The first group that hung out at the Zulu experience (I was not in this group) got incredibly sick! Several people had to go to the hospital and over about three days 20 of 27 of them were sick. When the two groups met for about 10 minutes we got to see our friends and I have never seen them looking so pale and miserable. People who are generally happy, smiling and full of life were just so sick! Those of us not in this group will probably never be able to understand what they went through.
My group then went to the Zulu experience and we were told to not drink th
e water and we brought plenty of bottled water with us. However, the Zulu place was still not clean enough for us. My group made it through the three days without anyone getting sick and we were all so happy. We made it home to AE and thought we were golden, but later that night, one of my friends went to the hospital followed by 2 more people the next day and then 1 more Saturday evening. Most people in the second group did not get as sick as those in the first group. But, a majority of us were not feeling the best.
We had a farewell dinner the night before we left AE for Cape Town. All of the professors were at the dinner and I was happy to sit at the same table as my Zulu teacher and enjoyed talking with her for the last time! It was really sad to think that our class is over, I will actually miss it!
The Garden Route
Traveling along the garden route was great! The first two days we drove for about 9 hours each day and then after that maybe an average of 4-6 per day. But honestly, we were in very comfy buses and the whole time we slept and watched movies, so it wasn’t that bad. The first night I was shocked that our hotel was right along the Indian Ocean! It was such a great surprise! And the air just felt so fresh and salty! As we are drove we could see the ocean a lot of the time and of course that is great!
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever!”
A major highlight of the garden route was BUNGY JUMPING! Not many people can say they went bungy jumping off of the world’s tallest bungy bridge! I think it’s the scariest, most adventurous thing I have ever done! About 40ish of us from my APU group went! I was in the third group of bungy-iers from our group and I jumped first in my group!
Another part of the garden route was visiting ostrich farm, which was a very random thing to do but pretty hilarious! I have to admit that I was not able to gather to courage to feed an ostrich, but I did sit on one for a second and we all got to stand on their eggs. Some people from our group got to ride the ostrich, but after this whole experience I think I am very afraid of ostrich. I also must add that our guide at the ostrich farm took his ostrich job very seriously and had a very interesting voice. On this same day we visited the Congo Caves. Since, my parents are great parents, they have obviously taken me to see caves before, so the Congo Caves weren’t really anything new. Most of us went on the adventure tour of the caves and we have the wonderful opportunity to climb through very small and narrow spaces including the Devil’s Chimney, where you must climb up 9 (very narrow) meters. There was also this one part where we had to slide around on our stomachs and slide down this
rock. Yes, the adventure cave was very adventurous.
And then after a week of driving along the Garden Route we finally arrived in CAPE TOWN!
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