Friday, May 18, 2007

Kaffer; a South African's paradise

Head to Lava but have to hire my own vehicle as the remotest of towns has only one bus connection per day. Outstanding scenery all the way there as the van crawls along the lanes through the thick forest. Find hotel with T.V for evening football and have a run out through the forests superb stuff but become increasingly knackered on the rocky jeep roads and reduced to walking pace. Trekking map which I am using as a base for trail finding flummoxes the locals who appear to have never have heard of some of the places I am heading to, rain rescues me from further futile exploration and I hatch a lift back to Lava to have a rethink.
Bengali's in hotel reckon the trekking routes are better in the remotest of remote towns of Kaffer so head there the following day and bump into the only other tourist this side of the Rimlingting pass a South African; not on some pilgrimage to places with names fashioned out of apartheid Sud Adrika you might think; but rather a young student bimbling about, thank god for that.

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