Nieu Bethesda

During the night we heard a lion roaring from the direction of mountain Zebra park so this morning we first went into the park again trying to find those lions. We couldn't find any lions but again quite some other animals amongst which some rhebuck which we hadn't seen so far. We left the park shortly after noon because we also didn't want to arrive in Nieu Bethesda too late. After a long straight road we arrived in the very small town Nieu Bethesda where we first went to "die winkel", the small local grocery store to get a few things for breakfast and afterwards we checked in at our accommodation and met Rohan, our host. After unpacking the car we decided to find a place where we could get something to eat and ended up at a restaurant at a sports club that surprisingly enough made the most delicious pizzas in their outside pizza oven. We won't forget that place because for one of the sauces/toppings for the pizza a very hot chilli pepper had been used so this was heaven for Matthew since he loves spicy food so much. We even talked to the owner to find out the name of the chilli which turned out to be the Moruga scorpion chilli which was the hottest he ever tasted before. While we were eating we already heard thunder getting closer and it started to rain a bit so once we finished our pizzas we walked straight back to our accommodation and just relaxed a bit. Not too long after that the clouds really broke and rain started pouring down heavily. Within minutes the street and yard turned into a flowing river and while we kept checking if the car wasn't getting washed away with all that water we saw that our host Rohan had the door of his house open and was busy sweeping water out of his house because his entire house was full with water. We could stay dry because we were staying in a tower and our bedroom was on the first floor so we only had to go outside to get to the bathroom. But when we saw all that water in Rohan's house we decided to go help him with getting the water out of his house. Together we sweeped and mopped for quite a few hours and meanwhile got to know our host a bit better and shared stories together. Eventually the rain stopped and slowly but surely we could see the water levels going down. We felt so sorry for Rohan because all his furniture and carpet etc. were standing in a layer of water. He felt bad that his guests were helping him but we assured him multiple times that we really wanted to help because we are not the type of people to just watch someone fighting against a flooding alone. And even during this flooding he kept his guests in mind and offered us coffee and tea and even pizza. When most of the water was out of the house and it stopped raining we could eventually get a few hours of sleep.Read more