Coffee Bay, Umzumbe, Durban and St Lucia

We left Bulungula and had the same eventful journey back which seemed to take slightly less time but still just as scary. I had my eyes closed and Zoe kept telling me it was ok and no steep hills or cliff edges were coming up. (she is a good liar). We got dropped off in the middle of nowhere and were pretty much left to our own devices. We had to get a local taxi to our next stop (Coffee Bay) which was like squeezing sardines into a rusty tin. We had all our bags on top of us for which felt like 4 hours but was infact only about 45 minutes.

We got out at Coffee Bay and went to our hostel we were shown to the bar where we met the loveliest friendliest bar men we have met yet. We were given a welcome drink and we chatted to the staff and practised some more pool. We went for a look around, which took about 5 minutes. It consisted of a tiny shop, a pizza place and an Afitude shop which sold really nice tshirts. That night we got to know the staff and locals and got very drunk!!

The next morning we had planned (again) to go surfing as the weather was bad it was cancelled so we decided to polish up (again) on our pool skills with Joseph and the other guys an finished about 2am.
On the day we were leaving, the sun came out, which was lovely as set off on our 8 hour bus journey to our next stop.

We arrived at Umzumbe (Banana beach) about 8.30 and were shown to which we thought was our dorm but actually turned out to be a tipi. The hostel was really nice and set in a jungle forest. They had unsuite tree houses (but they were for the luxury backpackers) and a Jacuzzi which we went in but had to keep getting out as it was to hot. we swam in the sea and went to the only restaurant there and watched the monkeys which apparently try to steel the food. they also had a really small shop which didn't even sell chocolate!!!!!!!!!!
we met Dave and Katie who were also staying at the Mantis and Moon in Umzumbe. We sat in the Jacuzzi again on our last night with them talking about where to go next on our trip and drank lots of wine.

we left on Monday to go to Durban and got there about 10pm. We had arranged to stay at Nomads as it had been recommended to us. We decided to go straight to bed as we were so tired. we went to the dorm and it was of old men. we asked to move to a twin room but they were full. We to the bathroom and found a cockroach then Zoe stood on another one reception. The next morning we decided to move hostels and went to Tkwinis and stayed in a twin room which was cockroach free. It was just off a road called Florida road which was really nice and full of lovely res truants and bars. We ventured out into the city and went to the largest mall in the southern hemisphere. We went out for a really nice meal that night as we needed to treat ourselves which helped us get over our first cookroach experience. We both has Ostrich which was amazing.
On Tuesday we went to Durban Sea world and watched to dolphin and seal shows then saw the sharks being fed.

Wednesday morning we got up at 7am to catch the bus to St Lucia. We went for a look around when we got there and it was lovely. There were lots of little gift shops and restruants. We went on a river boat in the afternoon and saw crocodiles, hippos and watched the sun set with a beer on the way back. The hostel put on a free meal of Impala stew which we sat and eat with some people we had met and watched a group of people from the community sing to us. We went to a cocktail party that night with the staff from the hostel and left early afternoon the next day for Swaziland.