La Bordello Durban

I'm spending 2 more nights in Durban with a nice couple I found on couchsurfing.org. Margaret is an environmental consultant working on transportation issues for the city of Durban, and Gavin is a professional clown. They've given me a private guest room and various rides around town, which is great because public ...

Durban est une jolie ville meme si je garde un mauvais souvenir car c est la premiere fois que je me fais agresser au couteau pour etre devalise et ceci en plein jour dans une rue bonde de monde...

Donc pas de photo de l afrique du sud ni du lesotho ni du swasiland. Les photos reprendront avec le nouvel appareil (le moins cher que j ai trouve) a partir de Tofo au mozambique.

J etais parti a umkomass dans les environs de durban pour faire de la plongee. Ces ...

Here are some things I have been doing in the past few weeks: -Visited a special needs school and got to see their heritage day festival -Increased the size of my South African family. My mama's husband is home on a 3 week leave from work- his work is something with African wildlife in which he travels all over to various parks and reserves. He is really warm and friendly, and although he literally sits and watches TV all day I enjoy ...

South Africa is really... white. Durban is dangerous at night and there
is a huge mall. They have blackouts every day for two hours at two in
the afternoon, and even the malls shut down.

... stuck in the open position. We called the car rental, and they told us we had to go on to Pietermarietsburg to change cars. We couldn't stay in the mountains, as there were rain showers, and we felt that it was prudent to change the car. We drove down, and eventually changed vehicles. Onwards we went to Durban and took a left to Uhmlange Rocks ( not sure of all these spellings). This is the Miami ...

... the forum was very friendly to me. Initially, she was just asking about why I was there, but at some point she started expressing her opinions about "colored" (a very commonly used word here even still today) people and the downfall of South Africa following the end of apartheid. The conversation became very awkward for me as I didn't want someone to overhear us and assume that I shared her beliefs. While her comments weren't overtly disparaging ...

... diving gear to arrive. The sea was really rough. For scuba divers the conditions on the surface don't really matter that much but they do of course affect snorkellers like me. The boat we went out on was pretty much a large dinghy. It's those large inflatable boats you see. There wasn't even a dock at the beach, so they use a tractor with a long pole to help push the boat into the water then we help to keep the boat stable until its deep enough ...

... a really beautiful spot, but my camera battery had died and I didn't realise, so there are no pictures I'm afraid – you'll just have to take my word for it! The hostel here is empty other than two German girls who are leaving in a couple of hours, so it's very quite. I went for a bit of a swim in the sea and got knocked over quite a lot as it's so rough. I was going to try and surf a bit, but I can't even swim in it without getting dragged under so I think ...

... was a blue ***** Baboon. Paralysed with fear I could only sit there and watch as the horrid creature started to dismantle the wind screen wipers and then move onto the aerial with the skill of a proficient thug. Once again the wife steps in to save the day, she calmly hit the horn and the Baboon simply grunted turned around showing us his grotesque blue **** and left. Still suffering from shell shock after having one of my ...

The life of a jet-setting scientist rarely includes much of a life, and even less so a jet. So, when I was offered the opportunity of a trip to Durban, I said yes! Wayne, My supervisor from Berkeley California was going to be in town attending a workshop on HIV and disease modelling, and we were invited along. It was the perfect opportunity for Mark, Wayne and I to talk about the potential for my project, and to meet some people who may be able to ...