Leaving the ‘Kingdom in the Skies’ behind us we travel south to Cintsa. You can choose to relax, or participate in one of the optional activities available! Optional Activities: boat rental, quad biking Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
13th December 2013
Today was another big day driving. I'm glad, I'm not Owen or Rimson, organising and driving us tourists around seems pretty stressful to me and I don't have their patience. The drive out was as bumpy as it was on our way in, given it was the same we came in it's not really that surprising. As I was going through the Lesotho Immigration the immigration lady wanted to have a chat about how I found my stay and was I nice to my hosts, for the record I enjoyed it and I'm always nice... The rest of the day was just sitting back, enjoying the views whilst Owen & Rimson did all the heavy lifting.
We arrived at our campsite to hear that they have had copious amounts of rain in the last 4 days, which was great news and not so great news. The not so great news was that we could only upgrade for one night (ohh well) the great news was we were going quad biking.
When our host took Lisa, me & Ester to reception to see if we could get an upgrade he asked if we wanted 3 single rooms, he did look somewhat puzzled when we told him one double and one single. I wanted to tell him one king size for three, but missed the opportunity. When we got to the room it was really nice except I couldn't actually fit in the shower, if I moved I turned the shower off.
14th December 2013
Today was the day we would be unleashed on the quad bikes, pretty much everyone wanted to have a go. It's sold as a quad bike game drive as the animals on the reserve are used to the bikes so don't really bother about them. When we got to reception at 8am to book the quad bikes it turned out that there were only 6 quads available for hire so lots of people were going to miss out. The lucky ones Thomas, Michael, Esther, Eva, Lisa & me got to get the motors running, whilst unfortunately Diana and Christine couldn't join us and I know they wanted to because it would have been their first time.
Our quad bike guide gave us the obligatory safety briefing and we were off... at slow speeds. Our first encounter was the hand raised giraffe, he stopped had a look and mosied on. Our guide told us he really likes blondes, the speculation was that he was raised by a blonde lady. We rode a round a bit testing the quads and the guide out, we soon realised that the boys at the back were pretty much free to hoon as much as we liked whilst the new riders set a more gentle pace.
We me came around a corner and were greeted by a herd of wildebeest, a few of horses, two pigs that thought they were part of the herd and the tame giraffe. This time the giraffe wanted to stick around and get a pat from us, by far the best interaction was when the giraffe gave Michael a kiss, unfortunately I missed the shot. The next kodak moment was the giraffe hurdle, one front leg the other front leg and then both back legs.
From there we saw lots of animals, but truthfully the focus was on getting dirty. I had two slight hiccups, the first was after the group went over a rocky outcrop, I chose my own path and had both left hand side wheels airborne and then got stuck. I had to reverse to get out of that slight predicament. The second was an air encounter, accelerating hard just before a little hill whilst pulling back on the handlebars launched me into space. I landed just of the track and then had to break hard otherwise I was going to be part of the landscape.
The only dummie spit was from Lisa when she reversed into my quad bike, now the facts "your Honour will show that I am blameless as Lisa stopped in the middle of the track and with no prior indication or legitimate reason began to reverse". Now I'm sure Lisa has a different version of events, but seriously who are you going to believe. (Lisa says she never used reverse gear, she just stopped & "bump")
During the ride Michael and I practised and demonstrated emergency braking and evasive techniques, just in case we got into difficulty. All manoeuvres were conducted under correct supervision and guidance, no animals were injured during the filming. The video was done for demonstration purposes only. During one such demonstration Michael showed how not to correct a jump gone wrong. Please don't try this at home, as a poorly executed jump can cause injury or even death. Michael and I are highly trained professionals.
The rest of Lisa's and my day was spent just hanging around the new campsite, the others either went to the beach or went paddling.
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