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Durban Slideshow
Durban
Travel Blogs from Durban, South Africa
Sun, sea and ticket problems
... garbage). After faxing them the tickets and waiting 4 hours for them to get back to us we finally managed to delay our return from South Africa by another couple of weeks. 2. We needed to hire a car to complete the leg of the journey from Durban, ...
Last full day with the van Belkum's
... to see how these people work together. LifeNets Southern Africa cares for people in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In South Africa we are doing about five scholarships. In Zimbabwe we are doing two projects related to water, goat-raising and habitat. ...
Durban
... if we should just tow the car to our hotel. Unfortunately, I came to find out that our AAA membership doesn't quite work in South Africa. The next day we were off to Eshowe. I liked the highway drive because I didn't have to switch gears - ...
Dip into SA
... a group from school were for a few more days, and so had arranged to meet up with them. As we approached Durban, the Sea at the bottom of Africa appeared for the first time and I couldn't help grinning and silently cheering in my head, as it felt like ...
When things go well... let people know!
... do. I knew that I could just take the local transport to Mtuba-tuba and then transfer to another local transport to Durban. But apparently this mode of transportation is not safe and every white person that lives here would think I was insane ...
Swaziland Dance Party
... say Hi and thanks and you're welcome, and how do you do that handshake again? Swaziland, this minute kingdom encircled by South Africa, escaped the divisive atrocities of apartheid, and yet here too a dividing line exists, more subtle as it may ...
Namaste Durban!
... a wrong turn and ended up in the Indian market which is enormous as about 50% of the population in Durban is Indian. Like a piece of India in Africa. Took another turn and there is a beautiful sea front walk with cafés and restaurants. What a diversity! ...
Vardag
Hallå! Här går allt på som vanligt. Jag har ingen bil, får skjuts till höger och vänster. Vi grillar var tredje dag. Flera av oss gillar öl! Men jag har börjat träna igen efter alla mina förkylningar, eller om det nu var körtelfeber(!) med ...
Raser
Jag lar mej gora skillnad pa raser. De svarta afrikanern tal spiken, dvs de klarar bubbelt sa stora doser sedering (lugnande) eller morfin an vad jag ar van att ge innan de blir paverkade. Galer aven barn. Dessutom blir de princip aldrig illamaende! ...
Meeting a racist in Durban
... in Africa had almost always been safe. In fact, the country I was most afraid of was that which I was about to enter, South Africa. She agreed that crime rates were high, and getting higher, and told me to be very careful of my belongings in cities. ...
Here I am again..
Well here I am again in Hillcrest. Spent the week, sorting through clothes to take down in to the valley to distribute amongst the orphans. They were distributed on Wednesday, it has been a variety of weather as well...really hot to quite cold......not ...
D-Urban-Casco-Land Experience
... is the least intersting option for these items). Previous occupants of the warehouse were The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa so our first task was to move their 'remmenants' to one corner. Unfortunately, a few weeks ...
"it's a better day" - local greeting :)
... here- he has his own (very cool) pad in the neighbors house! Last night we went to the our first World cup game in Durban. We felt very safe with police everywhere and plenty of Germans in the beer tents! See a few of the videos Griffin has made ...
The Ocean
... Foot, Mahahual") came to Africa during my time here. After the overland truck trip, I backtracked to South Africa and Lee and I wandered down to Durban for some diving, surfing and beach-laying. Our first priority was diving Aliwal shoal. The shoal ...
Durban
Spent the day in Durban prior to catching an evening flight to Port Elizabeth. Sat on the beach, had lunch at the Beach ...
Rainy days in Durban
... They've given me a private guest room and various rides around town, which is great because public transportation in Durban is limited. Despite almost constant rain, I've enjoyed walking around the city a bit and visiting several small ...
two ways of not knowing
... , there was a European queue of length zero. So Gandhi and I have this in common: we were both thrown off a train in South Africa for not knowing our place. In his case, it was of course a refusal to accept the rules, while in mine it ...
All the colours of the rainbow
... with Faith wanting to break Brad's nose, but instead choosing to sing Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song' (?) and adding "White people in South Africa need mental emancipation. They're bitter. We should be bitter but we're not." The only thing they do agree ...
The Wild Coast
... but it was impossible to find with the directions in the guidebook. I can confirm that they do sell the best chocolate brownies in South Africa though. Possibly the best in the world. The best of my life. It was quiet now with just the two of us, ...
Work at Lily
We concentrated our efforts on 4 main areas over our two weeks: Childrens villiage clinic (organising the childrens minor ailments medicine cupboard, checking for interactions with these and the HIV meds, date checking and producing a date ...
Durban - Cape Town
... Town for a week and now back in Durban until we leave to fly to Hong Kong on the 10th August. Would highly recommend Durban for the weather but Cape Town for the beautiful scenery etc. It has been fantastic seeing Kim and her family again, and of ...
Smokes and jokes
... water falls and tribal people. Gladly i,m back in the land of the living now. Its a bit mad actually, as i arrived in Durban i was actually getting scared of the busyness of a city!!!??? Anyways people hope everythings well with you all, take it easy. ...
I give up..
... cold and am absolutely exhausted and actually looking forward to getting away from the world cup. Yesterday I travelled from Durban to Underberg in the Drakensberg region and am looking forward to detoxing with some rest and relaxation and ...
Our last African hostel
... was occupied only by a few fellow travellers. Arriving at Durban late at night, we entered what was to be our last hostel in South Africa, after checking in, we were led in through the hostel & then back out to the front again to our sleeping quarters ...
Help - I've Been Arrested for Grand Theft Auto!
... . We browsed about, picked up a few miscellaneous items and returned to customs. After officially leaving Swaziland and reentering South Africa we ran into a MAJOR problem. Apparently, while eating lunch in Swaziland, the South African Border ...
Still Cruisin
The weather was beautiful so I got off in Durban. Did a little bit of shopping (different place same junk that nobody wants at a garage sale) and then went off to the beach!!! Didn't really do much but had a great relaxing day and some good Sangria ...