Fir Tree Durban

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>

... Mosque in the southern hemisphere. We've never been in a mosque before so it was quite interesting, don't think we'll be converting to Islam anytime soon though. After the tour we asked our guide for directions to where we could get some good Bunny Chow. We had heard and read a lot about Bunny Chow before we got to Durban so we were quite eager to give it a try. Basically its a hollowed out 1/4 loaf of bread filled with curried chicken/meat. The best part is you can dip the ...

... for the Feast of Tabernacles and rejoice before God. I had never seen Andre speak that way before. I really appreciated his report. Thenk I gave the sermon about the wonders of God's Law. After I sat down I felt good. This was the first message in twelve on this trip without consecutive broken up translation. It felt so good to be able to speak in one stream ...

... about 65 km east of Cape Town) where we were surrounded by mountains on both sides. As we were descending down out of the mountains in Sir Lowry's Pass, we saw several very large baboons walking on the guardrails. Falling off the guardrail would have been a very long fall down the mountainside. On Wed. morning, the 13th, I really wanted to visit Robben Island as I didn't have the ...

... used our football for lunchtime practise in the courtyard). The bonus was speedy disposal of rubbish and an unlimited supply of semi-broken wheelie bins ('pimped' to become mobile units for animation and filming, music, t-shirt printing, as part of performances ... rubbish disposal is the least intersting option for these items). Previous occupants of the warehouse were The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa so our first ...

So now that the GAP tour is done, I am heading back to South Africa for the next leg of my holiday. I need some time to relax, so I am going to Durban to lay on the beach for 2 days. I have been told it is warm and quite sunny there.. Time to work on my tan! As soon as I headed to the Airport in Livingstone, a massive "the world is coming to an end" thunder storm stuck. At this point, I have become quite ...

... Durban. This time I had to sit out 15 hours, but I saw some of the most beatuiful countryside and interesting cultures since my stay here and, at last, the sun was shining. The drivers are all very good and inform you of interesting local knowledge along the way. Our road was through Transkei, an area which was previously segregated for the black people prior to the political changes in 1994. Nelson Mandela grew up there, and we saw his old village and ...

... 8211; and rightly so. I saw so many things and it was beautiful. The dive that I was doing was an underwater naturalist one, so that meant that I got to learn what all the different things that I saw were called, but trying to think of them all now is impossible! I saw flute fish, eels, loads of different rays, sand sharks, scorpions, angel fish, octopus, blue box jellyfish, turtles, starfish, crayfish, and loads of other things that I just can't recall ...

... different from the rest of SA we've seen so far - there are whites, blacks and Indians all jogging along together. It's warm with a tropical feeling - we both agreed that it felt a bit like a blend of the Gold Coast in Oz, and Chowpatty Beach in Mumbai! Stange combination we know! It's nice to be warm again! We will be here for 3 days before heading off on the Baz Bus down to Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast. We're planning to take a ...