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Nelson Mandela Bay’s Top 20 Outdoor Adventure Activities

December 3, 2019 by Chasing the Rainbow in Addo, Eastern Cape, Locations, Port Elizabeth 1 Comment

The Eastern Cape, with its unspoilt beaches, rolling hills, craggy mountains and massive biodiversity is aptly known as the Adventure Province. This endless natural beauty is what attracted our family to live in Nelson Mandela Bay, where we are literally surrounded by outdoor adventures ripe for the picking.

We have spent the past few years trying to see and do as much as possible as a family in our beautiful city and can now with good authority rate and recommend our top outdoor adventure activities in and around Port Elizabeth and Nelson Mandela Bay – things to do to suit every adventurous family’s budget.

As avid nature lovers, outdoor junkies and adventure explorers, we are super proud to present our Top 20 adventure activities in our magnificent Nelson Mandela Bay (separated into the Top 5 in each price range):

Kruger Diary – The Lonely Bull Backpack Trail (Day 3/3)

November 26, 2019 by Chasing the Rainbow in Kruger Park, Locations, Mpumalanga, South Africa Post Comment

Day 3 – Lost in the Rhythm

As the birds started singing, we zipped open our tents and slowly woke up. We ate our camping breakfast of premixed Pronutro, milk powder and sugar and packed our daypacks full of snacks.

Kruger Diary – The Lonely Bull Backpack Trail (Day 2/3)

November 17, 2019 by Chasing the Rainbow in Kruger Park, Locations, Mpumalanga, South Africa Post Comment

Day 2 – Letting Go

The dawn chorus started with offensively loud and persistent quacking from a pair of Egyptian geese – sweet music to our ears. It meant we had survived our long night of terror! As the early morning light blissfully luminated our tent, we unzipped our door, lay quietly and watched the sun rise slowly over the African bush.

Kruger Diary – The Lonely Bull Backpack Trail (Day 1/3)

November 12, 2019 by Chasing the Rainbow in Kruger Park, Locations, Mpumalanga, South Africa Post Comment

The Lonely Bull Trail is a primitive backpacking trail in one of the large wilderness areas in the northern Kruger National Park.

The trail stretches over 4 days and 3 nights and we had to carry our own tents, water and food and camp rough in the bush, with two armed guides to show us the way and make sure we did not get eaten.

This was the first multi-day hike for all of us and although we did loads of research, there was an enormous and somewhat scary unknown ahead.

My biggest fears:

Getting eaten by lions.
Getting trampled by an elephant.
Having to use the (bush) loo in the early hours at night.
Having to do a number 2 in the bush

So with these fairly serious animal and ablution concerns, combined with my track record as a seasoned unhappy camper, why on earth did we choose to do this?

5 Things to do in The Crags

October 29, 2019 by Chasing the Rainbow in Eastern Cape, Garden Route, Locations, Uncategorized, Western Cape 2 Comments

Weekend Getaways in and around Port Elizabeth & the Eastern Cape – The Crags

When you live in Nelson Mandela Bay, you are spoilt for choice with surrounding weekend destinations in close proximity. Whichever way you go – East, West or inland – there are places to explore and enjoy. We chose to spend our latest holiday weekend at The Crags, a short two hour drive Westwards from PE.