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Durban Slideshow
Durban
Travel Blogs from Durban, South Africa
Monkeys in My Apartment
... since and was beforehand, having always been physically active my entire life. In the three years that I spent travelling to Africa on a monthly and sometimes more frequent basis ('98-'01), I was only sick that one time in the Ivory Coast. Of ...
Busy Times...New Experiences
... and Primrose took me to meet a black minister in a German Lutheran Church who's working on a Habitat for Humanity South Africa-Lutheran Church/Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Orphans & Vulnerable Children (OVC) project to build housing for ...
Another Week Begins
... , doing her post-doctorate work with a research lab whose name escapes me now and the Smithsonian. They returned to South Africa (Durban) in the summer of 2006. We had an interesting conversation about Jacob Zuma, a Zulu ...
Wild Coast
... , and even saw a few of the Rugby players (Western Province) who were staying at Edel's hotel. I have now finished in Africa and travel to Australia - Sydney first up. I've really enjoyed Africa and will definitely return! Speak to you all soon ...
Durban
... of the hostel told us not to go our after dark as well, so we weren't being totally paranoid. Our initial impression of South Africa is that it still seems very segregated. We saw virtually no other white people during our stays in both Durban and ...
Walking around the City
... but I am yet to see the other way around. I am just trying to get an understanding as to how post-Apartheid South Africa actually works. When you ask locals most of them contradict themselves so it is really difficult to know exactly what is going on. ...
Saving the Environment
... cases of child abuse or neglect actually result in a conviction as there are significant problems with the judicial system in South Africa. For instance, the police cannot arrest the perpetrator unless they have a statement from the victim or the ...
pit stop
... around Florida street at night. Florida is a street full of bars and restaurants. We are some good Indian food, which Durban is known for. We stayed at a hostel with internet, not cheap, but with a decent connection, so we ended up ...
Not a great first impression
... like what you’d expect Africa to look like. The place was heaving with people and it was very run down. We arrived in Durban at about 9.30 (a German girl from the bus was stopping there as well) and my first impression was not great, the area was ...
In a freeezing SA - Durban
... here. we all stopped saying TIA (This is Africa) to all the random things that happens. Now we say TISA (This is South Africa) because this country is nothing like the ones we have traveled through. Really high tech malls and excellent highways are ...
Final Day in Africa - Final Thoughts
... to ensure their continued success and continuation of the programs. Both Bev and I are ecstatic about this particular trip to Africa that will help us serve the people even better here. After flying back from Johannesburg, we met up with Bill and ...
A Place of My Own
... 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 ...
overnight at Hillcrest
We moved along to Hillcrest which was a bit before Durban. The road we were driving down was lined with lovely plane trees and, had it not been getting dark and was cloudy I would have taken a photo of it. It was really lovely. Went to stay at some ...
Continuation of First Few Days...
... some great conversations over lunch where I was honest with them about my spiritual beliefs. I did find it interesting that South Africa has a population of approximately 45 million with only 1.5 million (~3%) being business owners and 10 million (~22%) ...
Savoring My Last Month in South Africa
... of the largest of its kind in the world. Among the garden's 480 tree species are the oldest jacarandas in South Africa, originally imported from Argentina. We then took an unplanned detour to the township, Inanda, where Thami grew ...
My First Few Days
Greetings from Durban! After a very long trip here and nearly missing my connection in Johannesburg. I arrived last Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. I was greeted at the airport by the administrator, secondary ...
Whirlwind
... to see the football stadium in Durban that was used for the World Cup. There is a Y shaped arch, supposedly modeled on the South Africa flag, over the stadium and a platform at the top of the arch which you can get to via a cable ...
Durban
... greatest. Played cards by candlelight before going to bed. Sunburn still feckin sore! 3rd December Went for a walk in downtown Durban today. Twas Cool! The sheer amount of people was amazing! Went through the Indian Market and then the meat market. ...
Durban
Durban is a huge city and it's a compulsory nite stop when u travel on the baz bus (safe means of travel) as we are doing. Massive Indian population and as a result big cultural influence. Went on a walking tour with a crazy tiny woman(and this is weedy ...
uShaka Marine World
... as a huge aquarium for a huge variety of multi-coloured fish, sharks, rays, corals and other oceanic things from this part of South Africa. It is comprised of 5 sections, uShaka Sea World, uShaka The Phantom Ship, uShaka Wet 'n Wild, uShaka Beach and ...
Carry an oxygen tank, readily accessible
... Larry/accustomed/immune to such intense states but I'm not. I got a freaking Baz Bus ticket first thing at Nomad Backpackers in Durban. Thumbs up for Nomads (in the Berea district of Durban, one of the brightest and safest), by the way, they even ...
A Week Already - I Can't Believe It!
... really good this morning; they only cried briefly when they were hungry or needed a diaper, or nappy as it's called in South Africa, changed. It was quite pleasant. Another volunteer, who's studying to become a music therapist, and I tried to ...
The Elephant Coast to Durban
... boring that sounds). Then it was off to Durban where we would leave the car and go back to proper backpacking. Durban was different from other South African cities we have seen. It actually seemed like it was African. That might sound weird but Cape Town ...
And tonight you will be...George Michael
... students who didn't seem either willing or capable of sleeping. We're in KwaZulu-Natal now, land of Michael Caine, assigais and the biggest port in Africa. And with that useless fact of they day I'm off to enjoy the sun. Take care all, ...
Urban Turbans in Durban
... declared four of these homelands to be independent countries (which no other country recognized), including the Transkei. South Africa apprently provided some monetary support for these "countries," but corruption squandered a lot of the ...
divje zivali, Lufti in druge zgodbe
po cape townu ... sem sla z mojo konzervico na pot po afriki (k je je zdej ze skor konc, sam kaj naj, k gre tok hitr :( sla sem v Hermanus, kjer se lahko vidi kite z obale. Seveda, ker imam tako veliko sreco in nasploh so vsi kiti sveta sli IZ ...
The Wild Coast
... a few more games of killer pool and met a couple from Australia who were visiting their daughther who is spending a gap year in South Africa working at a school. The cool part is we were shocked that she knew Lara and Penny, the Aussies that we met ...
With the van Belkum's in Durban
... where Neville Smith works, but my laptop just couldn't get connected to the wireless or the ADSL line. We then drove around Durban and just spent time at their home in afternoon. We had lunch at a garden supply store. Open restaurants in Garden shops ...
Arrival in Durban
Right so got into Durban lateish at night, stayed in tekweni lodge. Is a bigish hostel, with a forboding 'Tekweni Goes Off' painted on the side - just a warning to get the liver perpared for the times ahead i suppose! But acturally didnt have too many ...