West Coast National Park

On Saturday, my fellow interns and I rent a car to drive up to West Coast National Park! It´s a 1 1/2 h drive there and very pretty. As soon as the road leaves Cape Town, there are Farmstalls on the side of the roadsm next to the petrol stations. A Farmstall is a little market, kind of a farmers market, where one can buy local goods, freshly baked bread, homemade jam cockies, rusks and other food in jars. You could also eat there. So next time on a road trip I will have breakfast at such a place. It will be wonderful!

Niniane (multinational/captonian Intern) came with us, to drive us. South Africa drives on the left side of the road, so I didn't dare driving from the start. But I tried as soon as we left city-traffic! And it actually was pretty simple. Sometimes you use the windshield wiper instead of the tuning light, but that's not so bad.

But driving had it's down sides: I didn't see the first ostrich, we passed on the road, because I had to concentrate. But there where many more to come

As we passed the entrance of the park there was this sign: 

I was to surprised by it to take a picture right away, but I toke one on our way back! Only a few meters after the sign, there it was: the first tortoise right next to the street! And also many more to come:

First thing we did in the park (after taking a lot of pictures of the tortoises, which amazed me so much), was getting something to eat at the restaurant. It was a beautiful white house at the beach of the bay, with a beautiful garden.

Driving on, we had to stop every few kilometers, because of the beautiful view. The weather wasn't that kind to us, but it was much better