Kathy’s Travels

Well after Wildside, cute surfers and Buffalo Bay am now in a small town by the name of Sedgefield.

Sedgefield has sprouted along the N2 main highway that runs along the coastline. And in this tiny little place there is a wonderful new hostel called Upendi Backpackers. Upendi, meaning love in Swahili, is a double story thatch house about a 1min walk from the lagoon.

Upendi Backpackers: 8.5/10 Comfortable, clean, friendly. Close to the lagoon where you can go canoeing and search for the rare knysna sea horse. Or you can go to one of four beaches and surf, swim and tan. For the adventurers you can ask Sancheo, the owner, to organise a tandem paragliding flight or heck…. why not take a full course and get your pilots license. Sancheo will also teach you to POI….. or fire dance. I was playing with fire on the 2nd night of my study and haven’t burnt anything yet… so she must be a good teacher.

November 26th
In Buffalo bay at a hostel where the beach literally comes into the common room.

My first stop was at a backpackers about 30min before this one in a small town by the name of Sedgefield.

Upendi Backpackers: 8.5/10 Here you can go paragliding along with a number of other things. The atmosphere is wonderfully relaxed and the owner, Sancho, is a beautiful person who makes you feel at home immediately.

Upendi is actually so close to Wildside (the hostel in Buffalo Bay) that the BazBus couldn’t figure out how to put me on the bus for such a short trip. Eventually Sancho just gave me a lift.

Wildside Backpackers: 9/10 Stunning beach, fantastic staff and good food. The parties go late into the night and if you are not careful you get caught buying doubles when “the singles run out”….. yup people fell for that line a few times.

While at Bomvu, made friends with a group of hippies, no other terms works better. Wonderful people who taught me how to make string jewellery. Now with my own strings firmly in my hand and beads galore from the bead shop conveniently located right next door to Long Street Backpackers, I began making, selling and even teaching. Its great to make something and have someone actually give you money for it. Certainly helps a little with the bar bill.