Swaziland Travel Blogs

... year old. Once you've sat down (sometimes before) they speed off playing Swazi music at full volume, it's a great experience. Swaziland is one of Africa's richer countries, all Swazi people have a right to land. Yet tourists do create a problem, whereby ...

A travel blog entry from Manzini by stephen.j.booth
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... was extinguished at the time). Very good. In the afternoon we drove up to Pigg's Peak, which gives the most amazing views of Swaziland there are, but after about half an hour of driving, cows were appearing not ten yards in front of me out of the fog ...

A travel blog entry from Manzini by stephen.j.booth
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Hello Everyone, We left Nelspruit and took about a 5 hour drive south east to go to Swaziland. It is a small landlocked country. It is bordered by Mozambique to the East and surrounded by South Africa everywhere else. It is very tiny, only 17363 sq ...

A travel blog entry from Mbabane by audreyandjack
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... they got on in St Lucia and had been abusive. Load mouth Cockney guy eventually quietened down. Crossed border into Swaziland amid dramtic Thunder and Lightning. Got to Sondzela Backpackers between Manzini and the capital Mhabane at about 7.30pm. Just in ...

A travel blog entry from Manzini by petenic360
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A travel blog entry from Swaziland by myjob
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Never one to hang around in one place for long, it was off again - this time to Swaziland, on the way back to Jo'burg for my flight out of SA. I'm staying in a hostel on the Mlilwane Game Reserve, which is great! Yesterday I went for a walk in the ...

A travel blog entry from Mbabane by vicki
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... but most of them just walk in their t-shirt. In the middle of nowhere. Where do they come from ? Where are they going ? Swaziland is even poorer than South-Africa. The houses you see are the 'better' ones. What they call the 'town ships' are little barns, ...

A travel blog entry from Mbabane by tonyandmarina
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We moved onto the next leg of the journey which was into Swaziland which is a small country completely surrounded by South Africa. We journeyed down in the mystery mobile and came to the border control which was a fort Knox like bastion of security. It ...

A travel blog entry from Mbabane by fiandrob
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Hi!! We are back in civilization, at least for tonight. We drove today from Johannesburg to Swaziland. We are spending a few days with my other friends from Guam, the Blossers. On the way, we did some shopping. Of course, it was a big tourist trap ...

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... here was at its best with dips in the swimming pool, dogs to play with, dinner and beds available. Our final views of Swaziland are driving through the really poor rondeval villages on the road out of the country. If you paused for more than a second ...

... off with a bang (if you'll excuse the pun).   I managed to track down the only Chinese shop in Swaziland (probably) and bought some sparklers, marshmallows and ludicrously cheap fireworks - some were only 20p!   Back at the lodge ...

... focused on the orphans of the village. As approximately one third of the population is HIV positive, there are many orphans in Swaziland. In this particular village there are over 200. As we entered the village some were there to welcome us. The lady in ...

... Town. We found it the cheapest and least hassled way of traveling in South Africa. We had a fair bit to go to Swaziland with estimated time of arrival 5pm. We stopped a couple of times in the morning for bathroom and refreshment breaks and reached the ...

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Despite not being able to feel the lower half of my body (see yesterday's entry) I went on the cultural quad bike tour anyway.  It was great fun zipping through all the villages taking in the view, drinking the local moonshine and learning about ...

...is gone.  You might remember that a while back I had to fight to get some more money for the doors and windows to finish the Gogo's house.  You might also remember that I asked Meshack to put down everything we needed and repeatedly asked ...

After a couple of days of doing little things - cleaning windows and putting up a set of swings we're finally given a proper new project.  An HIV positive woman is recently divorced and as such has nothing to her name except a couple of kids to ...

Friday - A new backpacker has shown up at the lodge.  A guy called Zander from Liverpool who's been living & working in Botswana for a while, seems like a nice guy.  Big night on tonight at House on Fire, the best venue in the region.  ...

... they're welcome. After a sunrise hike to see the waterfall, sucking down some fresh alpine air, and a huge feed of bacon, eggs and all the trimmings, it was off to see Swaziland. It was the start of the motif for the trip - "I wish I had more time here"...

I'd stayed on an extra week in Swaziland partly because I didn't want to leave and partly because I wanted to go to the Mkhaya national park - one of the last places you can see the seriously endangered Black Rhino.   Sarah and I spent two ...

Access to internet here is a much different thing than in South Africa. I have to take a twenty minute taxi ride just to get into the Mbabane to get on the internet, so sorry for the delay. I am working at Emanule, which is an orphange just less than ...

Another pitstop... this is a recycled glass factory just across the South African border. Sure it's a tourist trap, but hey, the stuff is beautiful, and with hindsight, its about 1/3 the price the glass is by the time it gets to PE or Cape Town. Stunning ...

... lost. Couple of lazy buffalo chilling on a river bank. Just endless viewing. Drove out bottom gate and headed towards Swaziland. Crossed over boarder around noon. No problems with our passports (not being stamped in or out of Lesotho) so all ...

... we are off to wherever the wind blows us:) We spent a few days in Sodwana Bay, which was beautiful-especially the beach. After Swaziland, we will most likely head north to Kruger National Park for a safari for a few days. I will touch base with everyone ...

Welcome to Swaziland... your money is tasty. The Ezulwini valley is meant to be the cradle of Royal culture. Apart from a parliament house the size of a phone box, a memorial to a dead King that you can't take photos in, and a museum that take 4 minutes to ...

... night. Brrr. Ant and Emma told me this morning that they are moving on to another backpackers place, the originally named Swaziland Backpackers, near Manzini. My first thought, completely selfish as it sounds, was, "Yey! I can have the extra blankets ...

Hi!! Today we started on our last safari trip. No big cats in this park, but lots of elephants, Rhino, giraffe, etc. This is just a one night stay in an open hut, i.e. no windows or doors, not even in the bathroom. We had 2 game drives today. ...

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... access to internet is a little bit frustrating, but other than that I have really enjoyed my new placement. To get anywhere in Swaziland you have to drive. The way most people get around, and the way that I have been getting around are in the kombis. ...