BAD ROADS, BUT NICE STORY David and Patricia Coles, Australia has been called South Africa "Africa for Beginners". We are located on this continent is already 5 months and can say that South Africa is actually very diverse. Some minor features are striking. For example, water. Its here you can drink. Straight from the tap. No need for additional processing or buying it in plastic bottles. And water will be hot if it flows from the faucet with hot water. Just open the tap and it flows. Wonderful. Toilets. They work, and better yet, they do not look like a hole in the ground. Beautiful, towering above the floor toilets. My patients are immensely grateful to her knees. Security - is another difference. Much of Africa, to pay attention to safety, but here the walls, barbed wires are electrified fence erected in some degree. But this is still Africa. And if you leave the supermarket and drive off in the direction of European-style buildings, you will get back to Africa. Country different from their neighbors, but they also have much in common. Surf the Indian Ocean Main road network of South Africa pretty good quality. We drove along the number 2 to the east coast, the line number 1 runs from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and the N3 from Durban to Johannesburg, but there are many other trails. On main roads the speed limit is 120 km / h. They are all in good condition. On smaller roads, they also paved, the road surface speckled with numerous cracks. It seems that road service is not very worried, and potholes on some roads can become quite a serious obstacle. The worst section of road was exit number 2 to the town of Coffee Bay. We left the city of Port Elizabeth and drove several hundred miles, toured the city East London and headed north in search of an inexpensive hotel on the coast. Track number 2 runs along the coast, skirting most of the mainland. Area on which we rode, was not a mountain, at least by the standards of South Africa, but quite hilly. It was already quite late, and we, after driving through the hills on which we have gone most of the day, we decided to call in Coffee Bay. A short trip, less than 70 km, at the end of the day were no signs of any problems until the potholes on the road. These were not just potholes. Mostly, they crossed the road from edge to edge, and were also still very deep. Vans, cars, trucks and other vehicles moving in both directions. It was pretty interesting to see how all those cars trying to avoid a pothole, often leaving the limits of "paved roads". Unfortunately, most of the roads it was impossible to keep the curb. Edge of the road rose markedly over the earth, and in places even met wetlands. Potholes on the road to Coffee Bay We got to the Coffee Bay after a 2-hour journey, during which we have overcome a total of 70 km and even in the dark, for the first time during our trip. Someone called the town of Coffee Bay "sloppy." So it is, but the town is generally good. Beautiful beaches housed honey promontories, covered with scrub. Settlement itself, apparently, the kind and the best days, and all its beauty, no doubt, will soon again see them. We settled into the hotel, which was apparently built in the days when everything was more subtle. They gave us a huge number. Even the two huge beds are not able to create in him a feeling of tightness. Managed hotel in the same old-fashioned way, like many years ago. Dinner and breakfast included in room price, which was quite large, so that we fed to satiety 4-course dinner and a dense English breakfast. Staff at the hotel is very nice. In general, a good, albeit a bit strange hotel. Ocean Beach near the town of Coffee Bay Read more:
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