What a wonderful and happy trip that was, discovering some of the best of Africa in two weeks.

And when I think about this particular trip, even now, I always smile.

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For this trip, however, I decided to include the Eastern Cape in the picture simply because it’s somewhere I’ve never been to.

There are still lots of places to go to in South Africa — two places on my bucket list are the Garden Route and a particular lodge near the Cederberg Mountains — but I thought I’d cross the Eastern Cape off my list.

We stayed in three of the best lodges in the Eastern Cape, including Oceana Beach and Wildlife Reserve, which is a very unique luxury safari experience.

At the Oceana Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa

A privately owned estate, Oceana has the most incredible beach I have ever seen in my #Travelife, plus a safari experience.


So you have the best of both worlds, with the beauty of the sea and the attraction of wild animals rolled into one.

The view from the bathtub in bathroom #1 of the suite, living a #Travelife

This was a very nice lodge and the oceanview suites — which are really villas — are beautiful. They have large terraces, a spacious bedroom and two bathrooms.

The meals, too, were very good. We loved the dining experience here. It was not gourmet food, but it was proper good food.

Breakfast was particularly wonderful, especially with that killer sea view and a couple of giraffe and zebra roaming around.

What a way to start every morning.

At the Oceana Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa

I loved ordering eggs benedict here every day — if you’ve traveled with me, you’ll know by now that this is my standard breakfast fare on holiday — and having this with a view of the ocean next to me.

The yoghurt and fruits served at Oceana for breakfast were also incredible, owing perhaps to the quality of food in this part of Africa.

One day I remarked to our waistaff: “This yoghurt with granola is so good.“

She nodded, and added: “I know. Lots of our guests say the same thing. And it’s really funny, but when I try doing it at home, it’s just not the same.”

I could’ve told her that.

Having breakfast in this beautiful lodge with a spectacular view of the ocean everyday certainly started my days on the perfect note, in the East Coast of Africa, living a never-ending, and never-endingly eventful #Travelife.

Today in Africa, at the Oceana Beach and Game Reserve just off Port Alexander, living a #Travelife, I had a very good lunch.

Quite uncharacteristic of me, we were sitting at the bar for lunch, with a view of the beach and a family of giraffe grazing just in front, and I ordered an open-faced steak sandwich.

I’m not a bread person in general, so there are few instances in my life wherein I will willingly order a sandwich instead of something else on the menu.

But today, when I saw this steak sandwich as one of three or four options on the menu for lunch, I suddenly felt like having it.

How fortunate that I did, as it was perhaps the best steak sandwich I’ve ever had.

It was incredibly good beef, and it was cooked just right so that it was neither tough and overcooked nor too rare.

Then it had just a little bit of melted cheese on top — enough to make it juicy, but not so much as to drown out the meat.

Steak in Africa is generally lean.

I’ve tried to find fatty steaks everywhere and anywhere, and to no avail. And today’s lunch was no exception.

But somehow it was so wonderful, that it truly made my day, in Africa living a never-ending, and never-endingly eventful #Travelife.