Mondazur Resort Estate At San Lameer Durban

... lunch and a full glass of wine in a lovely local restaurant / pub. The first farm also offered cheese tasting - Wine and cheese, my idea of heaven - Add a few women to it of course!!

I must be honest, the tour is excellent value for money - Each wine tasting would cost about 60 Rand, the cheese tasting was 12 Rand, the lunch with the glass of wine would have been roughly 70-80 Rand, the transport if you hired a car around 300 Rand making a ...

... did fine. I lectured on Southern African countries (Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana) and then gave my final lecture for Geography 1. It felt good to be almost finished with my lectures.

A lot of people in the group dropped off their laundry at a place just 4 or 5 minutes walk from the hotel while I took Sophia across the street to play on the beach a little. Our bus left at 12:30 for a city tour, starting at the Victoria ...

... 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 ...

... The existing one serves current passenger needs well but there is no space for cargo. When we entered the new South Africa there was a lot of political wrangling over it, which went hand in hand with a power struggle for the city between the (largely Zulu) Inkhata Freedom Party and the African National Congress. One of them has won now and we're finally getting our airport. - 50 years late is better than never. An interesting story in the local papers showed ...

... ostrich, red hartebeest, warthog, buffalo, kudu, spotted hyena, and several species of birds. In the evening, we stayed in the park for a night game drive in an open air Landrover from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. where we saw the following additional animals and birds: common duiker, black-backed jackal, eland, porcupine, springhare, bat eared fox, scrubhare, spotted eagle owl, and Egyptian ...

... there is some doubt about the validity of the rape and corruption charges given the very public rivalry between the current President, Thabo Mbeki, and Mr. Zuma, but noted that the accuser in the rape trial was moved out of the country. He said that even Mr. Mbeki has dealt with corruption charges. He went on to say that unfortunately in order to rise up in South African politics today you have to be corrupt. I told him that we had ...

... ni prizanesla, in ko sva po 5h in 36 min pripeljala v cilj v obmorskem mestecu Kleinmond, s cudovito plazo, je bila moja prva misel kopalke in kopanje. Ko sem prisel na cudovito belo plazo v "baywatch" stilu in zakorakal v vodo do gleznjev me je v nogah kar zabolelo, tako mrzla je bila voda. Vseeno sem zbral dovolj poguma in se 2x vrgel noter (mislim, da to morje steje ze pod Atlantski ocean), ampak na hitro. Zmagovalni cas je bil danes ...

Up fairly early and fed fish. I put Bonnie out for the day (it was a lovely sunny day so did not need to leave the bedroom door open for her) Mike picked me up about 9:15 and we set off for the Winelands tour. It was an absolutely lovely day to do that. Sunny, warm, no breeze or clouds anywhere about. This full day tour of the Cape Wine lands took in a number of wineries, which the South Africans call either wine estates or wine farms ...

... sport we have never heard of. It is called Kloofing and is quite popular here. You follow a river gorge. You do what ever is necessary to make your way through the gorge. You have to drop off cliffs down into the water, and float or wade in the river waters when you can. You wear a wet suit throughout the trip. Any stuff you need to take with you floats along and is dropped off the cliffs too in water proof bags. Going ...

... people watched and listened to the music when I noticed something strange. There were groups of school kids walking by in their uniforms (yea, they have to wear them here) and they were all either white or black. Even tho they go to the same school, it seems there is no mixing. I wondered if it was just me but the more I watched the more I noticed that colors kinda stick to their own here. I am not used to this at all. Stellenbosch is a university town which seems pretty ...