South Africa 2002 Day 12 Oudsthoorn

We went to Cango caves this morning. It is a limestone cave that was cut by river and is covered at the top by a layer of sandstone. The whole trip wasn't very exciting, with the highlight being shopping at the souvenir shop and the guide speaking in this accent to "follow my torchlight", which later became a joken between Gerhard and Derek.

Next, we travled to this mountain (Swathog), which is 1585m above sea level and it is made up of shale and sandstone. Then the daring ones (which includes me!), would ride the moutain bikes down the mountain. As it was drizzling and the weather was cold, believe me, going down this rocky terrain by bike is not for the faint hearted. I think today warrants for the coldest day I had in SA. We ended up cold and miserable...to cheer up, I had myself 4 mutton steaks for lunch and stood by the fire to get warm,

Gearing up for the trip down

The kind of rock face should we fell off the mountain

Luckily, we were allowed to return for a change of clothes (a rare treat considering how Gerhard had this aversion to stops and delays) and headed for another bout of ohhs and wahhs as we travel trough a series of parallel fold mountains and we even saw a few rainbows. Lastly, we climbed up a slope to view this9 m waterfall, which Derek propose was swimable, my foot

Our lodgings

Fold mountains

and double rainbows

Dinner when we were all dead tired