Nomads Backpackers Durban

I'm spending 2 more nights in Durban with a nice couple I found on couchsurfing.org. Margaret is an environmental consultant working on transportation issues for the city of Durban, and Gavin is a professional clown. They've given me a private guest room and various rides around town, which is great because public ...

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 sure why I am here early, but I learning to take each day as it comes...

... in the Indian section of town. I was interested to see that the street next to the market had been renamed Denis Hurley Avenue, in honor of the anti-apartheid Catholic archbishop that I had visited back in 1992. The Catholic cathedral was right across the street from the market.

The market was pretty organized, under a roof with established stalls and a good selection of curios to buy. We got a nice outfit for Sophia for R10 ($1.25), and she ...

... 6/7 hours there going from one end to the other. It was a quiet night back at the hostel it was pretty empty with only a few locals. The next day we went to USHAKA Marine World, an aquarium & water park & spent the day watching sharks & other sea creatures, a dolphin show & a swim in the water park. That night we treated ourselves to dinner, and then had a few drinks in a bar, where we got chatting to a guy who turned out to be an ex-drug runner!! It was ...

... So I was very surprised to see the change that the last couple of years have brought. For the first time since being away I made a point of visiting all the new places to hang out. Expecting to find a new shop or two, I was amazed to find that whole new towns have been built in the metro. When I was a bit younger journalists used to lament the slow progress being made on large projects. Their favourite was the new international airport - which was started in the ...

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.

... of his legendary vocation as an activist, Gandhi was asked by the judge to leave the court for wearing a turban. The museum features a number of collectables, including an extensive miniature car collection. The Daphne Strutt Costume Room features fashion from throughout the 20th century with a number of rare Art Deco and Nouveau pieces. The "Movers and Shakers" exhibition features ...

... 5 yrs (1992-2000) while they were both getting their doctorate degrees in marine biology. After leaving Port Elizabeth, Ursula actually spent a year in Annapolis and the Solomon Islands, Maryland, 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 from this region of ...

... beadwork. The guide explained why one of them was only half covered up, signifying that she was unmarried , but had a potential husband, and something about how she would make 1 of 3 necklaces to give to him, a red and white one symbolizing that he has her heart, and the only other one i remember was a black one, symbolizing that he has to pay the cows first! We also saw men making weapons and shields, a fortune ...

... broek, pet. Geen korte broek en polo zoals de vorige keer. Bij aankomst in Durban, ben ik toch half geveld door die busrit. Ik ben verkouden. Loop te hoesten als een malle. Mijn hoofd bonkt en ik ruik en proef alleen maar snot. Aaaarghhh. Ik heb gereserveerd bij Ansteys Lodge, R70 ( ongeveer 7-8 euro). Ik laat me ophalen door ze en ik krijg te zien waar ik mijn nachten kan doorbrengen: Tjeezzz, een schuur met twee stapelbedden, ik word gek. Douche ...