St. Lucia, South Africa Travel Blogs

King prawn hunt
Jun 8, 2006 (13 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos Up nice and early to go and see an Indian Ocean sunrise. Very nice in the misty beach with the fishermen Silhouetted along the shoreline. Later we did a really good boat trip out on the St. Lucia estuary ...

Peed on by a serval cat at Emdoneni
Jun 5, 2006 (4 photos)

... Town, but passable. We then continued up the N2 through lots of eucalyptus plantations to Isinkwe, a place rated the best backpackers in South Africa by Lonely Planet. We saw Red Duiker on the way up the driveway, surely a good sign. I have to say it ...

Lost in False Bay
Jun 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... the main cities this one sold mainly beers with a couple of token bottles of wine. I guess wine is only popular with the whites. St. Lucia looks a bit touristy but in a nice way. We went to Bibs Hostel that got a bad write up in the Lonely Planet, ...

Dumazulu village and misinformation
Jun 6, 2006 (6 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos We decided to head out to Fanie's Island in St. Lucia to do a hike. Spotted a few nice looking crested guinea fowl on the way out of the driveway. These guys look like they have mohicans - very nice looking. ...

Cape Vidal, back on safari
Jun 9, 2006 (5 photos)

Click here for all St. Lucia photos Back on safari, well sort of, we drove through the Tewati Wilderness area up to Cape Vidal. Although lots of big game had been reintroduced here, we did not see much. We did however see lots of female kudu, ...

Hlehluwe/Imfolozi Park (near St. Lucia)
Jan 12, 2006 (7 photos)

... roll back further then where they started sometimes, lol! The highlight of this park though was the rhinos. All white rhinos in south africa apparently can be traced back to this park, they were almost extinct and only a few remained here. We ran into ...

Walking with the Hippos, Sleeping with the Birds
Nov 4, 2007 (14 photos)

... his brother with the live, squiggling tail in his hands.  One morning, we set off on a hippo tour of the St-Lucia wetlands; ticking off another UNESCO site from the list.   We were quite entertained by the guide who could switch from ...

St. Lucia Rain, Rain, and more Rain!
Jan 8, 2006 (6 photos)

Hi Everyone, We started to head south out of Swaziland for a 5 hour drive to a town back in South Africa called St. Lucia. The drive had quickly changing scenery from shrub like savanna plains to forested areas with stick like trees, to vast farms of ...

Crocs and apple pie! A good day in KZN
Dec 18, 2005 (13 photos)

... a worrying trend in many African zoos when it comes to snakes. I have encountered the same situation now in Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The philosophy is that the best way to have a snake display is to have a small amphitheatre where lots of people ...

St. Lucia
Dec 19, 2005 (10 photos)

... food as well! We didn't get up to much aside from putting our visa in and heading north for some wildlife viewing. St. Lucia is a town situated in the St. Lucia wetland reserve. There's plenty of hippos, crocodiles, as well as the occaisional zebra ...

Visit two more countries, and the car broke down!
Oct 14, 2005

... . This afternoon was spent with more failed fishing for me, and a book on the beach for Hannah. Tommorow we go to one of South Africa's main cities, Durban, to meet with a friend of mine and see the sights. We shall be staying with him in a surfing town ...

Swaziland and St. Lucia
Jul 23, 2007

... some waterfalls up the road. After that, we spent a little while at a market, and then hit the road again towards St. Lucia, about another 4-5 hours away. The place that we had booked for the weekend was deserted, apparently closed down, so we found ...

St. Lucia -- Wetlands
Apr 29, 2009 (16 photos)

... ! Tomorrow, Sunday 2nd May, after dropping off Gerds' with some friends who will take her back to Durbs, we head for Mabibi 180kms North from St Lucia to still do some snorkelling and final preparations for Mozam. Our first border crossing awaits!

Life's A beach if you're a Hippo!
Mar 3, 2007 (5 photos)

We baz bussed up to St Lucia, which (unlike its Caribbean namesake) is a tropical forested wetland which starts a wetland stretching up the entire east coast of africa. It is a global heritage site which means Hippos and Crocs (wild animals) can ...

Day 135 - SA, St Lucia - Shark Attack
Mar 23, 2009

... there a few nights or just the one. Will decide as we go. Gotta love the freedom of independent travel. Arrived at St Lucia just on lunch. Beautiful town which reminds me a little of Noosa in Queensland. One main street with shops and restaurants ...

Swaziland and Dipping of Toe in the Indian Ocean!
Apr 11, 2004 (7 photos)

... recharging the batteries at first 'cuz the "universal" plug adaptors I bought back home were NOT the right configuration for here in South Africa. But managed to get the proper plug adaptor at Kruger NP for just 20 rand and now we're in business! Have ...

St. Lucia/ Zulu village
Jan 31, 2007 (12 photos)

... from the cruise ship but who were actually European "caravaners." Twelve couples, mostly Germans, had rented caravans and were driving around South Africa. They looked as if they had stepped out of a smart hotel and not at all as I would have looked after ...

St. Lucia
Jan 6, 2007 (20 photos)

24th Jan...just downloaded photos...notes coming very soon....had no access to net for weeks...

St. Lucia, South Africa
Nov 10, 2008

Nikki decided to hop on the adventure with me and take the Backpackers Baz Bus with me! We headed to St. Lucia which is on the coast north of Durban. The first evening there we went on a boat cruise on the esturary and saw a ton of hippos. This time the ...

Dances with Zulus
Jan 8, 2008 (1 photos)

... time schedules. Never mind, I think we saw the highlights anyway and spent great 48 hours in the small kingdom between Mozambique and South Africa. We decided to buy a hop on - hop off Baz Bus ticket from Swaziland to Durban. The first leg of journey ...

Binocs in one hand, steering wheel in the other
Sep 22, 2007 (11 photos)

... though, and so we toyed with a number of ideas as to how to spend it.  We settled on staying over in St. Lucia, South Africa.   It needs to be said that South Africa is, unfortunately, one of our least favorite countries around the globe.  ...

St Lucia
Jan 31, 2009 (4 photos)

... distance so we could go to the Drakensberg mountains. From there we popped into the neighbouring Lesotho. I thought this was part of South Africa but it turns out it is a completely separate country, as the stamps in my passport confirm! We did a tour ...

St Lucia
Oct 31, 2007 (7 photos)

... travelling is the feeling of freedom, but for a while there around Durban I wasn't feeling particularly free!! I think this hostel in St Lucia might have some potential - there don't seem to be too many people around right now but the guys who ...

My stomach: The Pain Gizzard Filled with Glass Sha
Jul 15, 2007

Friday morning I woke well rested. The ten hours of sleep was definitely needed after traveling the day before. I dressed and went to congregate with the other day walkers.   Today we would be traveling to a farm museum in Pretoria. I didn't eat ...

Drive-by Sightings
Sep 19, 2006

... badly affected by HIV. But, poor as most people are, as Africa goes, this is a relatively prosperous place. Returning to South Africa, we underestimated how far we had to go that day and stopped short at Mkuze Park, relatively remote and located along ...

May 25, 2009
May 25, 2009

... inter-racial relationships, sex, etc etc.  Just trying to get an understanding of culturally what they believe, etc.   St Lucia is unfortunately one of the last vestiges (Stuart - is this the correct word??) of severe racism in SA, probably ...

Days 4 - 6
May 23, 2009

... read Roots and been really impacted by that story and knowing that that part of history really did not happen so long ago (and here, St Lucia has been one of the last towns to get rid of apartheid), I look at the faces of these beautiful people and see ...

May 29 - last official day on projects
May 30, 2009

... again tonight after the croc / hippo tour but don't know if I will, in which case this will be my last blog from St. Lucia, South Africa.  So it's kind of a bittersweet entry as I've really enjoyed my time here and will miss all of the little people ...

Day 2
May 19, 2009

Hi all - ok, first of all, good news: my luggage has apparently been located and should be delivered this evening.  I'm not getting too excited until I see it with my very own eyes!!!   Today was a good day - went on a tour of all of the ...

St. Lucia - arrival
May 17, 2009

... Johannesburg airport was easy to maneuver - especially as I had a porter, Eric, who took me all the way to check in at South African airlines (be warned for those of you travelling to World Cup next year there were no elevators, thus I had 3 suitcases on ...