Safari in South Africa – Adventures by Disney Part 2

Guest Blogger Coleen Bolton continues with her Adventures by Disney trip to South Africa.

Day 4

Today started off with a drive to Stellenbosch, which is South Africa’s second oldest city and also known as the wine capital. It is a very cute town with lots of Cape Dutch cottages. First we had a hands on cooking class and made Koeksister (pronounced cook-sister), and that was also our word of the day. A Koeksister is a pastry sort of like a doughnut dipped in syrup. We then got to work off our Koeksister with a bike ride to our lunch location.

Our lunch was at Moyo in the Spier Wine Estate, a fun place where we almost felt like we were eating in a treehouse.

After lunch there were two choices — wine tasting or an eagle encounter. I am not big on wine so I chose the eagles and I am glad I did. It was a nice presentation where we had a couple owls land on us and got up close with a couple vultures.

Compared to yesterday today was relaxing, but unfortunately we will be saying good bye to Cape Town bright and early tomorrow morning. We are headed to the airport at 5:30 am to make our way to Knysna (pronounced nize-nuh). Adventures by Disney is the only tour that flies to Knysna, others go by motorcoach and waste a whole day driving.

Day 5

Cape Town was a beautiful city and I am so glad I had the opportunity to visit it and soak up some of the culture. Today starts our visit to the Garden Route. This was like going out to the country compared to Cape Town. It was a quick flight away but it would have been an all day drive so I don’t mind that we had to be up so early if it meant not spending a whole day on a bus.

When I used to picture Africa in my head I thought of the flat savannas and so far we haven’t gotten to that part. Instead we have seen the vibrant waterfront and city of Cape Town which was bordered with rocky looking mountains. Now we are out in garden country where there are green covered mountains everywhere. Today we went a little bananas at Monkeyland and then watched the birds soar at the world’s largest free flight sanctuary.

After some lunch out in a vineyard we headed to our new home for 2 nights — the Pezula resort. All I can say is – OH MY GUIDES! This resort is just A-Mazing! We don’t just have rooms we have suites that even have a fireplace. This resort also has its own small castle that we were able to tour. We are only half way through our Adventure and I am already totally spoiled! I know that I will never be able to travel any other way than Adventures by Disney!