Orion Piggs Peak Hotel and Casino Mbabane

... managed to get a photo of a widowbird in breeding plumage so he was really pleased. That afternoon at camp we managed to get some nice photos and videos of the birds around camp plus the blesbok. We retired to the tents early that night as with the mist around it felt quite chilly.<br><br>The following morning we waited for the weather to clear before we set off for a walk. It was a fairly long walk but well worth it as the ...

... It really felt like we were these kids&#8217; entertainment for the day on their way back from school. <br><br>In Swaziland, school is not free and some families struggle to pay the school fee (1,000 rand a year - £100) for their kids so what some families end up doing is alternate and send a kid for one year and another one the next. Zen was telling me that it is badly perceived for a kid not to go to school so sometime the community gathers funds to help parents ...

... it. We&#8217;re playing for keeps here. That&#8217;s like saying in 1500, "sorry no books; printing press is broken." Fix it, Momofuku.<br><br>J*#n, probably not his real name, is the last of a dying breed, the good-old-fashioned American ex-pat doper. The irony is that he&#8217;s even younger than me, a semi-retired &#8216;dot-comer,&#8217; though I wonder... He usually lives in Mozambique &#8216;doing a little telecom ...

... money to see how much they&#8217;d collected. Nevertheless, the group consensus was that in general they liked this village better than Dumazulu.<br><br>The village itself had beautiful, traditional beehive-shaped huts made of reeds, and 14 people actually lived there. We didn&#8217;t see the entire village, though, and much of what we were shown was pretty lifeless: the huts for the girls, the boys, and the empty kraals (corrals) for goats (for meat) and cows (to ...

Well as I get closer to departing, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on my experiences here w/Swazi culture. It is quite different from East Africa. When I worked and lived in Kenya, the people are very friendly and warm, even in a big city like Nairobi. It was also incredibly diverse as many different tribal and ethnic groups and religions co-exist there. My experiences with Swazi culture were very different than I anticipated. The people ...

Well so I am closing in on my last week here. Yesterday I went to this clinic in a fairily isolated place here in Swaziland. It was a beautiful 1 hr ride to get there. When we got there, the idea was that we were supposed to only go to see patients in the clinic. But I guess there was no doctor there to round on the children who were hospitalized....and on the weekends, the doctors don't see the patients...and at this clinic there are no ...

So back to work....well i went to the government hospital w/one of the pediatricians to round on some patients there....interesting that I just came from robben island prison because i wonder if they used the same architect. this place had more bars and alleyways than alcatraz....it did not look like a place to heal people....now i understand why often the parents don't want to go the hospital when they are supposed to be admitted. in any case, i went to the overcrowded pediatric ...

Hello everyone, I am back again and doing clinical medical work this time....i can't spend all my time partying it up in cape town!! Well I came back and started clinic on Tuesday and worked with this amazing Argentinian doctor. He was a great teacher and really spent a lot of time going over things with me. I had a great time. Some interesting things that we saw were 1 lady who just delivered her baby and was here for f/u for her and the child. She ...

... scary. He was massive! The elephant that is. Came across a beautiful green chameleon in the middle of the road and a wee little turtle which looked slightly lost. Couple of lazy buffalo chilling on a river bank. Just endless viewing. Drove out bottom gate and headed towards Swaziland. Crossed over boarder around noon. No problems with our passports (not being stamped in or out of Lesotho) so all good there. Took about 5 minutes to get ...

... huge glass statues. They also gave demonstrations of all of the glass blowing and sculpting which was really good. Later that day we headed into the town to have a look around and jump on the net for a few minutes. In the place we possibly Swaziland's 3 biggest Westlife fans and I mean that in every way possible. Whoa mama! But there wasn't a whole lot else to do so we headed back to the accommodation for dinner and a few beers.