Royal Swazisun Mbabane
Main Road, Ezulwini Valley Mbabane, H 106, Swaziland
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Loaded Guns and Leaking Sewers
The trip to Swaziland proved to be an adventure. The trip through the hills was very similar to New Zealand. The only difference was there was 1 cow per 1000 hectares! The two farmers we had on board with us were rather disturbed and kept muttering about 'waste of good bloody land'. Still haven't seen a snake.
Everything went smoothly …
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The Little Entery that Could
... celebrating a cow payment for a child born out of wedlock. That was fun, if uneventful. I was expecting some neat cultural realizations since it is such a strange idea from an American perspective to have a cow payment ceremony for something like that but nothing much happened. I have had some great conversations about American traditions. I told my closest Swazi friend that American grooms don’t pay for their bride and ...
The End of an Era
... It is also....the end of The Shortcut (writing that almost brought a tear). After a particularly stormy evening we decided to take The Shortcut to work only to find the bridge had been blown off. We could not face turning back; to be late for a morning meeting on American time would make your life not worth living. Our only option was to cross the remaining pipe - see photos for a better understanding. Needless to ...
Creepy Security Guards, 'The Shortcut' and Sibebe
... finds out (both options equally terrifying).
Finally, Sibebe. Sibebe is the biggest rock in Africa (according to Swaziland). It was my genius idea to climb it this Sunday; I researched how to get there, admission prices etc, and it was all going swimmingly ....until we set off on Sunday morning. Turns out it was a bit further than I thought (you have to really question the intelligence of these people for following me for ...
One Month Down - Two to go
... and got into the spirit of things.
That's this week done. All of the volunteers are getting along well - we all annoy each other but most of us seem to laugh it off most of the time. I'm not supposed to go out after dark (which is 5.30pm here) so please send me messages/anecdotes etc otherwise I'll be running out of this prison (complete with security guard).
Until next time...
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