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Durban Slideshow
Durban
Travel Blogs from Durban, South Africa
Tekwini's
This was meant to be us back to the party trail to have one last drink up with the people we'd met along the way as we were all going our seperate ways after this. Finally back to being somewhere with a bit of night life outside of the hostel. Here's ...
Culture and History from the Garden Route
... ; While English is the language of instruction in the schools, there are definitely different uses of English words between the U.S. and South Africa. Here are a few of the ones that I've encountered so far: ...
Unspoilt Wonders
... and animals (cows, goats and even a tortoise) to dodge on the road! A complete contrast from “modern” South Africa, the region felt like parts of Mozambique or Malawi. Formerly part of the Transkei, it was an independent homeland during the ...
Delhi Meets Durban
... Pat's car, which he then directed back into town and to a great Indian restaurant. The Indian population in Durban is quite large, and is easily South Africa's biggest, which means they have easy access to lots of yummy Indian food all the time. We were ...
Durban city tour
Durban is nice and warm, such relief after cold Jo'burg. Me and a girl from the UK went on a spontaneous walking tour of Durban with our own private guide, who assigned himself the task. He studies tourism in East London and decided to put his talents to ...
Reunited and It Feels So Good
... : they had acres of land, a swimming pool, and a giant house that was decorated impeccably -- a stunning introduction to South Africa, and a great place to acclimatize after our long journey south. After spending some time catching up and chatting ...
Love&light, Clowns sans Frontières Afrique du sud
Je voulais vous envoyer des nouvelles plus régulièrement sur mon activité ici à Durban pour Clowns Sans Frontières Afrique du Sud, mais j'ai été happée par le cours des événements! Depuis début mars, j'ai pu contribuer à de nombreux ...
Bonne résolution 2010 ... aider les clowns !
Au cours de mon fabuleux tour d'Afrique australe en sac à dos en 2009, j'ai eu l'occasion de suivre les activités terrain de Clowns Sans Frontières Afrique du sud. Tout d'abord au milieu des montagnes du Lesotho où ils formaient ...
By the sea
We're here in Durban, on the east coast of Africa, enjoying the cool Indian Ocean breezes! I think we're all pretty thrilled to be near the sea again after being inland for quite a while. It's funny; we all had a negative image of Durban in ...
Eating in Durban
... activity we wanted to do in the first hour. That was to eat a 'bunny chow'. There is a huge community of Indians in Durban and a bunny chow is basically half a loaf of bread, hollowed out and filled with curry. It was pretty good. We stayed in a ...
Salmubarak, Happy New Year!
... in Durban we haven't done too much. We tried to go to the beach, but again it was too windy again (apparently October is South Africa's windiest Month, and November is the second!), so we got a taxi into town and wondered around the main beach front. Saw ...
Wrapping up the semester
... good overall- I feel like I learned so much and got to know some great people. I was also happy to get back to Durban and see all of my friends...and have things to do after 7pm. The students had our own Thanksgiving Day ...
Day out in Durban - Socceroos Game 1
... up at 2.30am!) as we are taking our 470 passengers up to Durban by plane for the first Australian game against Germany. We arrive in Durban around 8.30am so everyone can enjoy a full day at Durban HQ, also known as Tent City. It's great to catch up with ...
New home
... the time I am here. All of the students on my trip are staying in a township outside of Durban called Cato Manor. I am staying with my South African mama, who lives by herself most of the time. Her husband works really far away, ...
Umshado wesiZulu (A Zulu wedding)
... in the past few weeks: -Visited a special needs school and got to see their heritage day festival -Increased the size of my South African family. My mama's husband is home on a 3 week leave from work- his work is something with African ...
Bye Daktari, hello Durban!
... that for a few more days. On Wednesday I will join a 8-day world soccer fan tour during which I will visit beautiful areas of South Africa as well as watch games from fan parks (surprising isn't it?!). Afterwards I will have a few days before joining and ...
Amatikulu (and 22!)
... top. She also has a different living situation then most people in the area. She is not from this province of South Africa, but moved there because there was no work in the Eastern Cape where she is from. This means that she hasn't ...
Another side of Durban and getting ready to go
Happy Halloween everyone! The last two weeks I have spent back in Durban, finishing up classes, and living in a hostel. I've been living in a very different part of the city than Cato Manor where there are a lot of nice restaurants and such, ...
Busy week
... a little. He lives with his gogo, who is also raising several other of her grandchildren (if you haven't noticed, gogos keep South Africa going for sure). Sepezihle was unbelievably thin, and not able to do much more than sit in bed. ...
CT to Durban....all on our own.
... village. Nice walk there though to the 'hole in the wall'. It took us all day. When we were just south of Durban in Umzumbe, there were reports in the newspapers about gun battles happening in Durban and cops being killed and we had a ...
Ngisafunda isiZulu
... of our semester). This weekend we leave for a rural homestay, so that is going to be a really interesting experience! I thought I was roughing it before, but this is going to be legitimately living in a hut in Africa...so yea, wish me ...
Go Spain!
After waking up at 6 to drive from Joburg to Durban, hoping to get a ticket for Spain-Switzerland, we made it into the stadium, shouted our lungs out to support Spain, and unfortunately watched the Swiss get lucky... In the following days we ate the best ...
Weekend excursion
... of the women sing a beautiful prayer, a very powerful and emotional thing to experience in a round hut in the middle of nowhere Africa. We also had a lecture from various people of the community- a nurse who runs the local health clinic, a social ...
Hippie happy in Durban
... kitesurfing or diving when I do not work... who knows! Not now though... Michael and I are back on the road, heading North of South Africa to reach Swaziland and Mozambique. Bo has driven us in his boat (the most amazing old Passat break) to St Lucia ...
Back in Durban
... after a somptuous breakfast and bath... Yesterday I was driven by Latiff's brother (the guy responsible for the B&B) around Durban. Drive through the vibrant Victorian market, the Musgrave area, 4D (cinema) experience at the Gateway (a must see ...
A Birthday in Sandy India
... about Durban is that it is beautiful. Located a few hours north east of Port Elizabeth, it is also perched along South Africa’s coastline where the warm tides of the Indian Ocean playfully kiss its shores. Its tropical, humid air and ...
Fest och förkylning
... . Rör man sig där ska man planera för att bli rånad. Inga stora summor i fickan och ha ingenting på dig som du vill behålla. Andra ställen är OK under dagtid, men man tar taxi till/från dem under kvällstid. Durban är annars säkrare än ...
Between the shipwreck
... some 20 odd years previously I had watched the very same Dolphin in action. uShaka Marine world is the the sea world of South Africa. Centered around a 1920s recreated shipwreck it brings together a number of things to do from visiting the huge aquarium, ...