Durban Spa

Sani bonani!<br><br>After spending few days in Maputo, walkking the streets, shopping in the local market (and eating some random, but tasty, fruits) and hanging out in the local jazz cafes we woke on Monday morning with the aim of getting to Durban. Unfortunately the red wine, whilst being essential for enjoying the jazz, put paid to this idea and it took us a few hours to crawl out and pack up the tent.<br><br>We ...

Here I am again with some pictures for you. I will be going to Umlazi on Wednesday to stay and will meet my Zulu friends. I cant wait to see my friend Precious who I met when she was 13 and now she is 18. Having a very good time, although the weather is very weird, really hot for days, then it goes cold.<br>

... which is more than Bill Gates I think - so that was ******** for start and also if he was to work for such a rich man what was he doing in the shittiest hostel in the city?? Any we had interesting conversations about Apartheid and his vision of South Africa. He also gave me an overview of the political parties in the country. Every time he mentioned the Blacks, he was looking towards the door as if they "were listening"!! He did come up with some ...

Our first taste of a big town since Jo'burg, and the hostel owner was showing us the no-go areas within seconds! But this was a place we found to feel very safe, although when we did get near those dodgy areas we were quick to move away...<br><br>Durban is the halfway stage of our road trip, mentally if not chronologically or distancely. Done is the wandering through different, disconnected sites where the out of season-ness was very obvious ...

... kids around that befriended us. So we had a lot of fun dancing with the kids and then had to leave before the party was over, considering we had been there for over five hours! Overall, the wedding was a ton of fun and it was really cool to see some of the traditions we have learned about come to life. It is still really weird to stand out so much in situations like this, but really nice to constantly be so welcomed and warmly accepted!

... trauma symptoms within the first few minutes of the first session - something that I've not encountered here at iThemba Lethu. One of my roles in the playroom is to contain their emotions. Thankfully, I have been able to locate an educational psychologist who specializes in clinical work with children to provide me with supervision as I don't have sufficient knowledge and experience to work with trauma on my own ...

... I got out of the cab, the driver told me to be very careful of my purse. There was only one African art shop in The Workshop, and it was so packed with stuff that I couldn't even focus. The prices for masks, even after "my discount", were pretty expensive compared to the Essenwood Market and the shop at the Art Society of KZN Museum. The lady in the shop also told me to be very careful of my purse. The taxi driver, an Indian native of Durban ...

Nach 10 Stunden Fahrt im Mainliner von Intercape und einer Dame, die mich davon ueberzeugen wollte, den Zeugen Jehovas beizutreten bin ich in Durban angekommen. Auf Empfehlung und aus eigener Erfahrung aus dem vergangenen Jahr hab ich mich dazu entschlossen, nicht direkt in Durban City zu bleiben. Stattdessen, greif ich ein wenig tiefer in meinen Geldbeutel (aber was sind schon 150 ZRA *g*). Mein Hostel liegt etwa 15 km noerdlich von ...

... thirteen to arrive. I passed some of that time chatting with a woman who studies in Durban, and she marvelled at how brave I was to have travelled as far as I have, alone. I told her that I didn't feel brave; travelling in Africa had almost always been safe. In fact, the country I was most afraid of was that which I was about to enter, South Africa. She agreed that crime rates were high, and getting higher, and told me to be very careful of my belongings in cities. I slept ...

... he thought he needed a new professional direction and began working in a restaurant to learn the business. But after a year, he'd had enough. He realized he had made a big mistake. That's when he set up shop. He swiftly, expertly handles the fabric of the dress I have brought in. In between the whirring of the sewing machine, we talk of traveling, careers and my long-time goal to live and work in Africa before he reveals his biggest dream. "I want to go to Italy ...