I jumped off a bridge!

Day 8 started at 5pm on Saturday and ended 6am on Monday morning. This consists of getting on a bus in Cape Town traveling for 8 hours, arriving in Plettenburg Bay at 2am, sleeping for a while, waking up, bungy jumping off a bridge 216m from the ground-in the rain-, driving to Monkeyland, viewing monkeys in a man-made jungle sanctuary- in the pouring, freezing rain-, returning to hostel and hanging out in the warmth, going to a super dinner, getting on the bus again at 9:30pm and then traveling back to Cape Town arriving at 5:30am, taxiing around the town finally ending up at home around 6:30am.

Although this seems like a crazy idea and, frankly something I normally wouldn’t be into, but as I have said before, When in South Africa… and I had THE BEST time. I did this extravaganza with Catherine, a friend from high school who is also studying in Cape Town for this whole semester.  

This 24hr period was super awesome, tiring and insane. I cannot even believe I jumped off a bridge. I really surprised myself with this adventure but I am soo happy we did it! We were suspended about 180m in the air when we were fully extended hanging upside down. It is the tallest bungy in the world. Like world record style. I have a DVD of my adventure and I will be happy to share it with people when I return home!

the bridge the morning we jumped

they send a man down to attach to you and take you up

They pulled me up

He was just awesome

We did it!

We met these girls from Ohio!

Monkey land was very cold and wet but also very cool. It serves as a sanctuary for monkeys that used to be in captivity, such as people’s pets, zoos, or circus’s, and because once monkeys reach maturity, they get a little mean and start biting and peeing everywhere, people often send them to sanctuaries where they can be real wild monkeys and live in an awesome jungle with other members of their species. So I saw quite a few squirrel monkeys, lemurs of different varieties and some others…and I walked across Africa’s longest suspension bridge. So I like to think I accomplished two world records that day.

I didn’t get to see much of the city, because it was gloomy and raining all day, but what I saw looked beautiful. Dave, from Aakaya (the hostel we stayed in) drove us around, and he said that a lot of people had holiday homes and only stayed there during the summer. So it was a different feel that Cape Town, it was smaller and kind of empty from what I noticed. We ate at a Mozambican restaurant before boarding the bus last night and it was real good! 

We signed the wall at Amakaya

shoe's drying by the lovely fire