Day 13

Good evening dear followers!

Day 2 of Hermanus started with a simple toast and coffee breakfast followed with our introduction to the Hermanus Rainbow Trust. We got in touch with this organization through our absolutely amazing travel agent Ilze. Seriously don’t know what we’d do without her. The headquarters are located in the township Zwelihle and although another township in South Africa, the environment is quite different from Guguletu. A couple of facts: the crime rate is way lower and there’s a smaller population therefore resulting in quite a bit more space. Many of the houses have yards basically. We had a briefing at the headquarters, running us through the general mission of the organization and the different departments within the org. Corrie has been working pretty closely with us during our time with the organization. Afterwards, they kindly took us to see one of their facilities. In one word: impressive. The athletic facility was complete with two rugby fields and a turf field for soccer and field hockey. Leanne, who works for Rainbow Trust, have us the run down on the facility and its maintenance. They have been able to fund a lot of the projects with the help of Barclay’s as well as the national lottery. After visiting the facility, we hit up a random field in Zwelihle and played a little World Cup. Congrats to Caitlin and Yuando for the big win. Lindsay and I were terribly disappointed. We headed back to the headquarters where Corrie organized such a nice and super appreciated lunch for us. What a gem. From there, we came back to the backpackers to get ready to stroll through the markets and have some dinner. Some of us were feeling under the weather or just plain exhausted so it’s no surprise that some of us used this time for a nap. We walked down to the coast for some whale watching (we spotted what we think was a Southern Right whale), market bartering and dinner. Some of us also hit up the Whale Museum at the time. We polished off the night with some great dishes, mojitos and amazing desserts at Cubana (might I suggest the brownie).

Stay tuned for our last day (and day 12) in South Africa. Sad face. Again, sorry about the lack of photos. We’ll get on it as soon as possible.