Recipe for a cool holiday
A while ago me and some friends went on a mini backpacking trip to the East Coast. I’ve never been there before, and I didn’t know what to expect. We didn’t really have any plans other than to relax and enjoy doing as little as possible. Usually I plan everything and this kind of non existent planning along with a tight budget brought images of me and my friends spending the next 3 nights in a range of different unsavoury places like, 1. we’re all alone in a dark isolated camp site with nothing but the daily headlines to keep our minds at rest, 2. we’re in a trailer park with a couple of mal fed looking permanent residents or 3. we spend the night in a bed & breakfast with mouldy carpets and peculiarly greasy doorknobs.
That is until someone took out a little book that will set any travelers mind at ease, The Coast to Coast – The definitive Backpackers guide to South Africa. This little book contains detailed information about all the Backpackers in South Africa, the better the Backpackers the more info about it. So all you have to do is decide on a general area where you would like to spend the night. Read up on all the different Backpackers in the area and choose the best one.
We stayed over at 2 Backpackers, both of them were excellent quality and only a stones throw from the beach.
The first night we spent at Angel Rock Backpackers in Warner Beach, where I spent most of the next day lying in the best hammock in the world. The second and third night we stayed over at The Spot Backpackers just outside of Port Shepstone. Here I suffered a short lived yet intense table tennis addiction!
Both of these Backpackers were very reasonably priced, clean, had free pool and cool travelers from all over the world. Well they could have been from all over the world, except they weren’t. For some reason most of them were either from Germany or they could speak German.
Next time you want to go somewhere but you don’t know where to stay, read the Coast to Coast and go to a Backpackers that sounds nice. Trust me, all Backpackers are not as unpleasant to the touch as the standard youth hostel that you’ll find in London, UK!
