Bad Baz Bus, Bad

20-June “Bad Baz Bus, Bad”My alarm goes off at 6:00. I throw everything into my bag and go downstairs to pay my bill. The girl at the desk tells me that I have about 30 minutes until the time they usually show up. I walk over to the ever popular kwiki mart to get breakfast. Ten minutes after getting back the bus is ready to go.
I’m the first pickup. I ask the driver how many there will be and he says about seven. I stake out the front row and lay down. We pick up a few others in Durban and go down the coast. I try to sleep as much as I can on the way.

The day before I had changed my mind on where I’m going. I was going to go straight to Port Elizabeth, but I heard so many good things about a place called Coffee Bay I decided to alter my plans.

We get to the closest city after an eight hour drive. My back hurts from the uncomfortable seats and I am still groggy from the night before. We get picked up by one of the hostels from Coffee Bay at a gas station. The next part of the drive is about 100k or 90 minutes.

The place is very cool, and I’m already glad that I changed my plans. When we arrive I go to my Hostel called Bomvu (meaning is red in the local language) while the rest of the van goes to the other hostel called Coffee Shack. Bomvu is defiantly the cooler looking place, but Coffee Shack is the livelier place. All the backpackers end up going over to Coffee Shack anyway after hours to drink so it doesn’t really matter where you stay.
I’m still beat from the night before and manage to only make it out until 10:00.