Tuesday, June 8, 2010

wild coast

Classes are over. The program is officially over. So this is now my last vacation...from a vacation, I suppose. Left for the Wild Coast. Increasingly beautiful and idyllic. Miles and miles of yellow hills sprinkled with huts foregrounded 360 degrees of mountains.


 

Our car was bouncing with local house music. Stopped in one town for gas. It was bizarrely populated by Asians and one gas station and a liquor store. That was all. Stopped at another gas station, which is when we encountered a van full of people holding instruments. So we obviously took a short break for a dance party. Great time to show off some of the moves I learned in African dance. Not that you'll see them. Such "brilliance" should probably stay in Africa.


We stayed in gem-hostel-finds filled with hippies and their children. Some highlights include walking on long stretches of beaches with dogs. Or with wild horses. Building a sandcastle, with mote and enchanted forest with some locals. Walking to “hole in a wall,” which was a stunning, deserted beach--except for a man who was previously wearing a “two girls one world cup" tee-shirt who jumped from the cliff above the hole... nude. And watching the sunset over the beach and mountains after spontaneously scaling a mountain by grabbing onto branches in flip flops.
     



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