Hacienda De Mita Ezulwini
Main Road, Mbabane Ezulwini, M200, Swaziland
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Ezulwini Valley means Valley of Paradise.
Can you imagine what the driver was thinking when he stopped to pick up two hitchikers outside this small Swazi village back in 1976. You see one of them held tightly under one arm, a leg, loosely wrapped in brown paper with the toes sticking out. As they scrambled aboard the young woman with the package selected the rear seat and the bolder of the two decided to take the front seat . They were heading for Johannesburg some five hours away ...
Good Things Come To Those That Wait!
... early the next morning to make our way to Mozambique and arrived at the Swaziland/Mozambique border around 1.30pm! After getting our passports stamped we returned to the car to drive through to the next border, but were told that we need an official letter from the bank, verifying that the car belongs to the driver. Not a problem I thought....oh how wrong was I!! Now, a couple of things you realise after being ...
School, the begining
... day was that some of the younger kids are starting to pick up some English! I have all of them saying bye-bye and uh oh, which is incredibly cute. Today I got the 3 year-old girl to say "good job!" and something else which I have momentarily forgotten. I am hoping that by the time I leave all of the little ones will have learned a lot of English. Just hearing me speak on a daily basis should really take them ...
Kingdom, Kiwi's and Climate Control
... I had been carrying since Malawi needed a good spray. It might have been an insecticide, or more likely water, but it allowed them to feel like their job was done.
I also had a few dramas with the local money changers. It seems that noone wants Mozambique Meticais and there are no official bureaus at the border. The money changers know it, and tickle you for ever penny they can. Fortunately I had sparked up a conversation with a local engineer who ...



