The Saffron House Salt Rock

... in Durban is limited. Despite almost constant rain, I've enjoyed walking around the city a bit and visiting several small museums.

Tomorrow I'm heading up into the northern Drakensberg mountains, where I hope the weather will be good enough to hike and ride horseback over the next couple of days.

... compelled to buy nothing. Viva la resistance to gadgetry!

I found a Starbucks near our gate and greedily slurped on a venti Chai tea latte until Mary arrived. We scurried to the gate once she'd bought a nibbly treat and we boarded soon after. The flight took off pretty much on time and was again uneventful. A little turbulence. Check. A crying baby a few rows down. Check. Cramped quarters resulting in a ...

It has been six days on the road since we left Johannesburg. Today we are traveling from Hluhluwe to Oribi Gorge and it will take about 5 hours driving. We have a cloudless, bright blue sky throughout our drive and a strong tail wind. Initially we travel over a rolling terrain with plenty of open plains, pineapple and sunflower fields, and commercial forests (in particular, eucalyptus trees). We are constantly going downhill in a southeast ...

Damn it.. Oliver is winning the war - I was up at 6:15 this morning... and walking along the estuary and beach by 6:30!!! This is NOT normal behaviour for me!! Walking onto the wooden board walk a sign warned of crocs and hippos and sure enough there they were lulling around in the water and on the banks. Seriously there were about 10-15 hippos just chilling in the water... their little nostrils and ears sticking up like rose buds. The locals just walked passed, used to ...

Headed down to the North coast of Natal to a place called Blythdale which is about 30km north of Balito where we were married a few years back. Kings's dad and Elize have bought a wonderful new holiday home there where we relaxed and had a chance to chill out ...

South Africa is really... white. Durban is dangerous at night and there
is a huge mall. They have blackouts every day for two hours at two in
the afternoon, and even the malls shut down.

I can't believe that I've been here a week now already. Yesterday I spent the day in training with the youth and parent workers as well as several of the staff members from iThemba Lethu. Several counselors from Life Line, an international counseling organization with branches in the UK, US, Australia (where it was founded), Japan, Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, etc., provided an all-day training ...

... dem var var vard inte tillrackligt effektiv, andra kom sent i forloppet, sa att chansen att klara sig ar minimal oavsett hur snabb och professionell vard de far. Antalet skadade om kommer till akuten har minskat drastiskt de senaste tio aren. Tyvarr ar det ocksa sa att antalet dodade av kniv eller skjutvapen har okat. Jag vet att flera mammor i och omkring Durban kommer att sorja sina forlorade soner nar det nya aret tar ****.

The crazy part of the journey has begun. On Monday, July 09, Aaron and I hired a car in Pretoria and made for the Drakensburg Mountains. This mountain range is located in the eastern central part of the country and separates South Africa from the eastern portion of Lesotho. Insokona Lodge was our accommodation provider and we arrived at 9pm. This is a quaint little hostel at the base of the Drakensburg Mountains. Upon Arrival, we spoke with a few other ...

... for now. Until we return. Sala Kakuhle! George x SATURDAY 1ST APRIL 06 arrived in Port Elizabeth the fourth largest city in South Africa. After travelling through the Garden Route arriving in a big city is a shock, lots of traffic, noise and people!! just like home...... Spent 2 days exploring museums, architecture and BAYWORLD (Aquarium Dolphin Show)and we met Mzolisi who runs a small township tour company Molo Tours ( Molo means hello in Xhosa). An amazing ...