Durban Spa

... little bit and the area my grandparents live by the beach. Our guide, Dina, began by giving us this really delicious Afrikans doughnut like thing that is bread dropped into hot oil then soaked in syrup. I have realized that many of you probably don't understand what an Afrikans person is. A person who is Afrikans has descended from the Dutch colonists that settled here in South Africa many years ago ...

7.30 start to get on the road – just like yesterday: 14 to 15 hours ahead of me but today I was feeling on form and more importantly not hangover!!


The first driver was Jay – He grew up in the Homelands and does a bit of charity work for the local kids giving them food and clothes with the help of his sister – so we stopped on the way to give bread to the kids.


After East ...

... our friends would do something to us so when we awoke and saw nothing had been done we were relieved. however, when we were driving back I was looking at Taylor's photos and he and many others had taken pictures of us sleeping! and let's just say they weren't very attractive ones.

I have no monkey stories today actually i take that back I have one short one, taylor walked into his room the other day and found 4 monkeys in there! While chasing the last ...

I went to Durban to eat Indian food, but instead ended up at the Good Food and Wine festival! Durban has the biggest Indian population outside of India! So I thought I could indulge in yummy food, but didn't find any masala dosa and the one restaurant I found had no food left! I went to the Victoria Market in the Indian area of town, though the shop owners are Indian the merchandise is mainly African souvenirs, so no cheap ...

... prostitutes being pimped, slum, and garbage. Oh yeah...and my driving didn't help out matters either. Having an American drive a stick on the left hand side of the road in the passenger seat is simply crazy. First off, I think South Africans are dyslexic because who does that. They really need to notify the rest of South Africa whenever an American drives in the country like an emergency sig alert. After stalling multiple ...

I spent the entire week last week balancing my time between the Transition Home and the office. On Tues, Feb. 19, I had the opportunity to interview my first cross-cultural adoption family for my research project - an Afrikaans couple who adopted a Zulu boy who is HIV positive when they were 51 yrs old. They were granted full custody when he was 18 months old. The adoption wasn't finalized until he was 4 yrs old due in ...

Yesterday I did the beach and my intent was to see the sights of Durban today. There was only one problem. There isn't really much to see here. I set out at 8 am for the city centre and found a crazy mess of people, cars and uninteresting buildings. One of the main "highlights" of the city centre was the Indian quarter with the largest Mosque in the southern hemisphere. Call me a snob, but the mosques in Richmond are far more impressive and surrey is ...

... lat illamaende av narkos eller opoid. Minska dosen drog jamfort med vita, halvera jfr svarta! De har mycket hog genetisk hereditet for ihd, hoga blodfetter, karlkramp och hjartinfarkt. Och de far latt KOL om de roker. Ingen bra kombination med KOL och hjartsjukdom... Svarta far KOL i stor utstrackning, men dt pga att man eldar rokbildande vaxter mm inomhus utan skorsten ...

... unfortunately was located in a mall. Although the food was good, the restaurant was up-market and rather expensive. The atmosphere was not conducive to fun and as we had to get up early the next day, I don't think the group had a barrel of fun. We later learned that the guides and driver and Kristal had gone out again after the rest of us were tucked in. At least some people did have a barrel of fun.

From Cinsta we headed up to Durban. We considered staying around the Transkeii, but both of us were keen to get further north and into Swaziland and further north into tropical Africa. We had a great time in Durban where we were put up by Wayne and Crystal. We had met Wayne on Ko Chang in Thailand and he had wanted us to get in touch if and when we got to Durban. He has a lovely apartment backing onto a small private beach in Umslanga (that is how you say it not how it is spelt). Wayne and ...