Country Info
- Mbabane
- Capital
- Lilangeni (SZL)
- Currency
- 1,104,343
- Population
- SZ
- Country Code
Swaziland Slideshow
Swaziland
Travel Blogs from Swaziland
Swaziland, the arrival
... with. In either case, I wanted to keep in touch with you as I travel back to Africa. This time I am in Swaziland, a small kingdom bordering South Africa and Mozambique in the southeast of Africa. I am doing Pediatric HIV/AIDS work here which will ...
Sick Kids in Clinic
Hey everyone, Well another interesting day in clinic. I felt like I learned a lot and was able to help some people today. I also got the chance to jog, meditate, and do yoga so it was a full day!! In clinic I was working with this ...
Solo Day in Clinic
Well so I am closing in on my last week here. Yesterday I went to this clinic in a fairily isolated place here in Swaziland. It was a beautiful 1 hr ride to get there. When we got there, the idea was that we were supposed to only go to see patients in ...
Mbabane
... proclaimed "All sex that leads to hell is unsafe". Regardless, you'd be hard pressed to tell from meeting the people. Swaziland itself was wonderful, and the people were extremely welcoming. We stayed in a wildife reserve at the base of a valley. ...
The Last Weekend
... somewhat similar to the plain states in the U.S. It is quite interesting the many different environments there are here in Swaziland. There is forrest and trees, high mountains, valleys, hills, plains---all remind me of different parts of the U.S. The ...
Hitting the Swazi Scene
Hello everyone, I am back again and doing clinical medical work this time....i can't spend all my time partying it up in cape town!! Well I came back and started clinic on Tuesday and worked with this amazing Argentinian doctor. He was a great ...
Musings on Swazi Culture
... in the same country. Here every one is swazi and all go to the Christian Zionist Church (the main church of Swaziland). #3. Xenophobia. Many people have told me that the Swazis are fairly distrustful of outsiders, particularly Mozambicans. There are some ...
Paronychia and other medically related things.....
Well Hello everyone, Some interesting things have happened since i have been here. 1. Jet lag---not so bad 1st day, tougher on day 4. just get sleepy during noon time here after eating lunch...wait that may not be jetlag, that may be my normal ...
Manzini, Ezulwini Valley, Malkerns, Hlane
... at the last site and lots of tourists at the other sites and teems of teems of South Africans poured out to go shopping. Swaziland gets a signficant amount of money from South African tourists. I know it may be my own preconditioning, but it really seemed ...
Scenic Swaziland
It's absolutely freezing when we wake up in the horse stables and quite hard to get out of bed. We start the day with a visit to Ngwenya Glass factory. It is a glass factory with all the expertise and equipment set up by a Swedish organisation. They then ...
Sauntering into swaziland
It is now time to finally leave the lovely South Africa and head to the small kingdom of Swaziland. It is probably the easiest border crossing we have had. The lady in immigration is so engrossed with the photo album she is looking at that she barely ...
4 Sick Kids
... . She just said that she wanted us to help the children and she would do whatever is neccessary. Here is a HUGE problem in swaziland. Families don't disclose they have HIV to other members. So if the mother dies (from a car accident or from HIV), then ...
BAZBUS TO SWAZILAND- CURRY AND PAP, NO SMEAR
... and catches a ride to Maputo with his friend. The rest of us continue on to Manzini and the Ezulwini valley. Swaziland is not a ‘mountain kingdom’ like Lesotho, but it’s pretty hilly and pretty nice. That’s more ...
Stop and Go
... extensive discussion debating over whether to take the express and slightly nicer bus to a town about 100kms outside of Manzini, Swaziland, or to take a cheaper, longer, but direct bus. We knew that either way, wed probably regret our ...
Cruising in a pick-up truck
A hot, stuffy, loaded to full capacity Baz Bus delivered us to Swaziland after a 9 hour and not totally uneventful journey. As well as them thankfully returning my camera case containing my spare batteries that I'd manage to lose on a previous journey, we ...
Zionist Church
... working in South Africa for a year and a half now. This is the first time she has explored the neighboring countries. On a map Swaziland looks like a bite taken out of the corner of South Africa. They are small country run by a king with 10 wives. The ...
The Big Two of Five
Not much out of the ordinary today...except for trekking Giraffes, sneaking up on Rhinos, almost being trampled by elephants and being intersected on occasion by Zebras! Today was our first safari experience at the Mkhaya Game Reserve...which ...
The Swaz
Today we got a true taste of this amazing country. Relative to South Africa, Swaziland remains relatively undeveloped and untouched. The people are extremely friendly and inviting. Racism is nearly non-existent as the country has had ...
Zulus! Tribal Dances! Great Food! Colorful!
... . It is considered rude to point. Also, it is also considered rude to look someone in the eyes when talking to them. Swaziland was different than I expected, 60% of the people grow just enough for themselves. 50% of the people in their twenties in ...
Swaziland
... solution to this problem is not to let anyone "help" you when using an ATM in South Africa. We then crossed into Swaziland, which is the smallest country in the southern hemisphere and one of only three monarchies left in Africa. After stopping for ...
Going wild (?) in Swaziland
... a rhino with a calf came in later in the morning, which was good. What followed was a big tourist day - Swaziland Candles which also included Rose Craft and a craft market; Mantenga Craft Village which included the Swazi Silversmith - which was ...
Champions League
Mbabane was a quick stop since there didn't seem much to do there and the next day (after walking around town for the afternoon and watching some Champions League in the evening at a local bar) we caught a combi to Joburg (Johannesburg). On the combi we ...
Good Things Come To Those That Wait!
... calling it a day! We woke up reasonably early the next morning to make our way to Mozambique and arrived at the Swaziland/Mozambique border around 1.30pm! After getting our passports stamped we returned to the car to drive through to the next border, ...
Sondzela!
From St Lucia we took the Baz bus in preference to changing bus 5 times on the way to Sondzela backpackers in Mliwane Game Park, Swaziland. This was an amazing place to stay - right in the Park with a pool and lovely facilities. On the first day there we ...
Lesson in life: Way to make instant friends...
... into the beautiful African evening - only to be stopped 100m down the road to have the bus searched by the cops!! Swaziland is a small independent kingdom, which like Lesotho is completely surrounded by SA. The Swazi people are ruled by their much ...
Swaziland
After my two nights in Mozambique, I headed back to Swaziland to get a little Swazi culture and a glimpse of those ever-elusive Rhinos. Luckily, on my journey back from Maputo I was able to sit in the front so my knees were not up in my chest as they ...