After a long journey across the Transkei, leaning out the window loving the vastness, the crazy plants and hoping for a siting of some wild animal (saw a dead monkey in the road!) we were heading to the place we were staying for the night and had taken a small, incresingly bumpy road when the vans came to a halt as the road had pretty much turned into boulders. We got out to survey the situation, realising it wasn't passable started to make plans for rescue mission. In the dark with a forset fire creeping towards us, the milky way and the clearest night sky I've ever seen above us and the sounds of creatures in the bushes some were panicking, some running about on mobile phones trying to get us out and me and Jenny (my new friend) revelling in the whole situation... Loving the drama and excitement.
A white Afrikaans guy (in fact the first we have met in the 3 days we've been here) Mark came with his super truck and towed us whilst reversing over the boulders, damaging the underside of our hire vans substantially! He was our knight in a dirty huge truck but we forgave his CO2 emissions and toasted him in the bar when we finally arrived.
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