So, so, so...

..much things to say... i just realise that's already a long time since we updated the blog!!!
So what's new??
First we spend 6 days in Cape town and the surroundings, very beautiful town where the recent history is still present everywhere. Nature is present everywhere and seam untouched. It's always difficult to engage discussion with the black people, first there's the language and the history is everyday life here. So We went to Cape Of Good Hope and Cape Point, rough sea there and amazing landscapes. We spend few times shopping to find a tent (not so easy...). With the Lonely Planet Forum we met a Dutch Girl wo was interested by our trip, so we waited for her in Cape Town.
After this 6 days, we were in a hurry to move, so we get fast to Namibia. We began in the south with the Fish River Canyon, which is known to be "the second canyon in the world", maybe, cause it's impressive. After this we tried a strange town called Luderitz on the cost, forgotten in the mist of times, strange atmosphere.. well we just spend a nigth. Straigth to Sossusvlei, but we had to made a stop in a mplace lost in the desert called Duwisib Castle: a castle built in 1909 by a Old German guy.. strange to see this in a nearly desert, why not.
Then we get to Sossusvlei, Red Sand Dunes.. the desert, strong heat, amazing landscapes.. very beautifull. And now we are in Swakopmund and heading to Etosha National Park, and we will see the old wall paintings in Twyfelfontein.

I'll update tyhis as soon as i can

Bye everybody

haven't read what i wrote, so sorry for the wreiting errors.

Photos

Voila les premieres photos du voyage !
Nord et Est du pays: Pretoria, Saint Lucia.
Bises a tous.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tourderoux

Cape Town

Hola la Cie, nous sommes arrives hier soir a Cape Town.

Entre temps nous sommes passes chez Etienne et Elmae, chouette soiree ou nous avons beaucoup parle voyage. Etienne ayant deja a son actif pas mal de trips du style Norvege/Inde en velo pendant 18 mois... Bref merci a eux l'accueil etait royal.

Etienne nous a enmmemne au Most Southern Point Of Africa a 30mn de chez lui... un pieds en atlantic l'autre dans l,ocean indien... sympa ;o)

Arrives a Cape Town sous une pluie torentielle et toujours ce cher vent glacial.

Demain probablement escalade de Table Moutain, un ti peu de sport!!!!

Very Knysna

Knysna is one of SA highlights, its just amazing, a pearl in the Indian ocean.
See google images, as long as our 9Mb pictures dont fit this blog ... !

http://www.unclepat.co.za/images/knysna4.jpg

Latest news:
- we both had a hair cut, we look 10 years younger, great !
- we saw whales yesterday in the Robberg Nature Reserve, close to `Plette`, Plettenberg bay.
They were 100m from the rocks, beautiful !
- yesterday we went for the first time in 3 weeks at the restaurants, to eat seefood, so good ! in that kind of huge restaurant you can only see in the US or just here, with stewards running everywhere.
- we had our first real `Bilan`, or check up, to check what`s going on, the good and the bad.
- we`re doing pretty well !!
- weather`s perfect here, haven`t seen the rain yet !

kisses, time to go to Mossel Bay !

Maybe it's HEAVEN...

Bon ben apres les plages de surfer's bronzes, qui surfent mine de rien alors qu'on se les gelent dehors... nous voila dans un endroit paisible. C fou ici on a l'impression d'etre partout dans une reserve, meme en ville. le nom de cet endroit: KNYSNA. Il est vrai que c un endroit plein de thunes, mais le resultat est saisissant!!

Hier petite ballade sur la presqu'ile de Robberg, soleil de plomb, vent frais, mer sublime et puissante, cote dechiree par les vagues, des baleines a 150m, et des centaines d'otaries... bref que rajouter....Ah si, on sait a present d'ou viens l'expression "Ca sent le phoque!!!" parceque c horrible, et meme a 100m!!!!

Ce concentre de decouverte est un pur bonheur, et God doit etre avec nous parceque le soleil nous illumine tous les jours, seule pluie de 5mn alors qu'on roulait de nuit!!!

Sans parler ds rencontres... Afrikaaners, Hollandais, Israelites, Chiliens, Allemand, Anglais,.....

On pense a vous, Gros bisous a tout le monde.

Raph et Steph au paradis

J`Bay

Good morning Europe !

Yeah I will post in english sometimes for our friends around the world, sorry about that frenchies !

We just arrived yesterday night in Jeffreys Bay, the beginning of the famous garden route. Well known by surfers for its `supertubes` !

It`s just freezing cold out here, even inside the backpacker ... I`m afraid we won`t touch the water before Namibia now :-(

We`re just doing good, travel really exciting. We`re realizing 2.5 month is far too short to visit southern africa, we will probably won`t see Mozambique ...

Kisses everybody, time for breakfast!

Raph

Adios Port St Johns

Bon ben voila, on quitte un petit coin de paradis Amapondo Backpackers, tenu par Tim et Annie.
Endroit vraiment propice pour se poser @j ce que nous avons enfin fait, plutot que courir tous les jours.
La direction une communaute de hippies perdue dans les montagnes Hogsback, a priori bcp d'art la-bas... donc a voir.
Mais avant musee Nelson Mandela sur la route.

Photos a venir.

Gros smacks tout le monde

Bon c chaud de gerer le blog

sur le toit de l'AdS le Lesotho



La on est a Port St Johns, apres etre passe par Santa Lucia, Durban, le Drakensberg, et demain decollage, pour.... opn verra...!!!!! c bonnard ;o)

Tout va bien, c grand, chaud, beau, avec un ti peu de tensions Noir/blanc qd mm, du coup pas forcement safe!!!!

La des images des parcs pres de santa Lucia, la lionne et ses copines (5) sont entre 3 et 20m de la voiture.... hallucinant, et des milliers d'animaux....des panoramas magnifiques.
Une tite photo dedicace speciale KDOs !!! Et une photo sur le toit de l'AdS le Lesotho, avec une biere apres une marche violente pour monter rapidos!



D'autres photos sont a suivre