Protea Hotel Edward 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>

... our friends would do something to us so when we awoke and saw nothing had been done we were relieved. however, when we were driving back I was looking at Taylor's photos and he and many others had taken pictures of us sleeping! and let's just say they weren't very attractive ones.<br><br> I have no monkey stories today actually i take that back I have one short one, taylor walked into his room the other day and found 4 monkeys in there! While chasing the last ...

I went to Durban to eat Indian food, but instead ended up at the Good Food and Wine festival! Durban has the biggest Indian population outside of India! So I thought I could indulge in yummy food, but didn't find any masala dosa and the one restaurant I found had no food left! I went to the Victoria Market in the Indian area of town, though the shop owners are Indian the merchandise is mainly African souvenirs, so no cheap ...

... prostitutes being pimped, slum, and garbage. Oh yeah...and my driving didn't help out matters either. Having an American drive a stick on the left hand side of the road in the passenger seat is simply crazy. First off, I think South Africans are dyslexic because who does that. They really need to notify the rest of South Africa whenever an American drives in the country like an emergency sig alert. After stalling multiple ...

... wore on a headband during the concert. Their goal it seems is to convert all Muslims to Christianity. I'm not sure about Jews, but I assume the same applies. I'm renting a car again this weekend to do some sightseeing outside Durban as the next few weekends will be quite hectic with writing papers for my last course at UT that I'm taking on-line. I'm not sure where we're going, but I will be certain to update my blog with photos afterwards.

... we went into the hospice which also didn't look particularly like somewhere I'd want to go and work, let alone live out my last sick days!! It'll be interesting to see how she goes with that. We arrived in Durban at around 3pm and Nomads hostel was actually only a couple of streets away from their lodgings which was handy. I checked in and then went for a wander to the local shopping mall for a poke ...

... sweep you out to sea so it is dangerous, so we didnt even get in the water this morning. AHHH, the agony, the one thing i wanted to do while in SA was catch big fish out of a kayak. I even came back early today(20th) from the bergs to try again but while i was gone a high tide and high wind kicked up a 7.5 METER surf that destroyed much of the eastern seaboard, no fishing. Tomorrow i should have some pictures up of the same beach but you will see the difference.

... to the Xhosa tribes. From the hostel in Cinsta, I did a hike along the coast & found lots of interesting shells. On day 2 of my stay there, I did a full day Transkei tour. A really fun bunch of 8 tourists rode on some crazy steep, muddy, dirt tracks in a 4x4 vehicle. We crossed the Kei river in the smallest ferry boat I've ever seen (it could take the equivalent of one small truck at a time). We stopped at a little cutural village where we saw the Xhosa ...