Mama Jude's visit!

During my spring break from school, and for the week after, I was lucky enough to have Mama Jude come visit me.

We spent the first week traveling along the Eastern Cape of South Africa, which was startlingly lush and green compared to the brown dust of Lesotho as of late. We saw animals, beautiful beaches, and stayed in beautiful hotels (although these days, a working shower is pretty much all it takes to impress me). This was also the site of the violent Xhosa wars, in which the Xhosa people had their land forcibly stolen from them, and it was intense passing these dazzling green farms where the black South Africans go to work for the white ones, the same as it's been for centuries, regardless of Apartheid being abolished. Seeing farmers walking to and from their work in the fields is a sight I'm very used to in Lesotho. The difference is, of course, that they're working for themselves, on their own land. The feeling is lighter. 

Scroll down for BEAUTY. 

I highly recommend Gibela Backpackers in Durban

Paintings of South African products. 

Night time view from Lodge at the Beach, Port St. Johns

There's a reason it's called the Wild Coast

window to the sky

In her element

Daytime view

This is Abbey

One of the best beaches ever

SHELLS

It's just like my house in Lesotho, if my house had electricity, running water, and THE BEST SHOWER

Don't be such a kudu 

Love you.