So, we continue our journey in this months TRAVEL & RELAXATION section of The Wellness Trail, and investigate BREATHING SPACES that leave you feeling like you are in meditation, just by being there, that leave you feeling at peace with everything, just sitting still and taking it all in.
We believe Coffee Bay & the HOLE IN THE WALL, in the Eastern Cape, are both that and a marvel of nature, have a look...
Now Coffee Bay, and the HOLE IN THE WALL, are situated on the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape, closer to the KZN end of the coast than the Western Cape end, but its oh-so-beautiful.
The 'Hole' is a unique structure with a hue detached cliff that has a giant opening carved through its centre by mother natures intrusion of waves.
The local Xhosa call this place "izi Khaleni", which means "Place of Thunder".
During certain seasons and water conditions, (high tide), the waves clap is such a fashion that the concussion can be heard throughout the valley.
Xhosa mythology tells a far more romantic tale of the sea people, semi deities who look like humans but have supple wrists and ankles and flipper like hands and feet.
A beautiful girl living on the Wild Coast, in a village near a lagoon, cut off from the sea by a mighty cliff, was seen by one of the sea people who became overwhelmed by her beauty and tried to woo her. But in dealing with the wrath of her father, the sea people enlisted the help of a huge fish who battered its way headfirst through the wall of rock. Through this hole spilled the sea people who swept the young Xhosa maiden away.
But the entire area is beautiful, the whole damn coast is magnificent, really breathtaking, yet it will provide you with the most incredible breathing space second to non.
And if you are going there we suggest a nice stay-over night or several at the www.oceanview.co.za, its older but has the best views and a quaintness to it that'l feel like home, its lovely.
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