CT - Step 1.5: yoga with animals, getting a friendship tattoo, campsbay sunset

The last day in the hostel located in longstreet was full of spontaneous decisions and unexpected encounter.

I started the day with breakfast in the common area in the hostel - a place everyone who want`s to socialize will meet. One of the guys does his daily yoga sessions in the common areas and this day we said okay lets go to the parc and do yoga togehter. He downloaded a 40mins yoga class from “Cassandra” and in the parc our yoga class ended up to be not very focused and quiet. There were a lot of animals that showed interest in us so we did yoga next to hummingbirds and together with , squirells, goose, rats and a white squirell. It was so funny and nice even though I was more focused on my surroundings than on the yoga.

One day before I sat down and started talking to a german girl that arrived that day and she was like “I see you like tattoos, a tattoo artist talked to me on the street today, so we could check it out and go.” And of course thats always a good idea.

So after yoga that day of course we went for a coffee and croissant in conscious kitchen. We already saw the tattoo artist passing by us so we thougth okay lets see what we want to get and then got to his studio. We knew a bit what we wanted so we went on pinterest to get more inspiration.

After 1 hour of pinterest idea collection, we headed there. I started and did two little ones and it was achtually really fun, to just randomly end up in this place and get some new tattoos with a new friend. One of the motives we even both got, meaning we already had a friendship tattoo.

In the end my friend did four small tattoos and I did 2 and retouched my dinosaur. This day I changed hostel because I wanted a change of scenery. So I checked in and for the evening we planned to go to camps bay for the sunset.

We ubered there and sat down at beautiful beach. For the sunset we sat in a bar and had a super nice cocktail when the sky turned into a dark orange and violet colors. These nice moments, encounter, talks over the sunset, sun and sand on our skin and possibilities make me feel so grateful and realize everyday how blessed I am.

After this nice sundowner I went back to my new hostel and met new people to go for a beer later on. This hostel was way more tranquil and chilled in comparision to the one in longstreet. It has nicer, cleaner only women dorms with AC and a little pool. The people were nice but most of the time already groups that mind theit own business. That is also why in the end I prefered the cockroachy-noisy hostel in longstreet because it was full of amazing people which gave it this fun, adventure, interesting vibe. wait for next chapter, to find out our experience with th downsides of traveling…