Sodwana Bay Lodge 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>

... We were the only non-blacks among a group of a thousand.<br> <br>Our city tour ended at the waterfront, and the weather was very pleasant for a relaxing stroll. Suzan, Sophia, Jeff, Monica, and I took photos at the kiddie pools, the same photogenic spot I had enjoyed on my morning run, and then I took Sophia to the small amusement park to let her go on one ride of her choice. She chose the flying elephants and she had a great time, pulling the lever ...

... days in Durban and we enjoyed our time here. We went to Sea World at U Shaka ~ no, that is not a typo, there is a Sea World with dolphin and seal shows. It was about 5euro to get in and was well worth it in my opinion. You can dive in the aquariums here for relatively cheap, but we didn't bother. Also you can be picked to interact with dolphins as part of the show for free ~ the staff will ask for volunteers to help them early on in the show, DON'T make a ...

... reading about plans for it as a schoolboy - now there are some condo's and theme parks taking root. They started at the harbour mouth a while back, but that all got knocked down in order to widen the mouth. They also built a phallic light house pretty quickly too. I wandered into the estate agent's in the development to pose as a foreign investor. It looked like here too we would have some delays. There was a serious one when they handed all the land over to the ...

... break as I approached the platform. Thankfully, the guide on the platform could break for me so I didn't plough into the tree. My two front teeth are already false from a bicycle accident when I was delivering newspapers as a young child and my brakes gave out on my bike. Losing more teeth would not have been very pleasant. The canopy tour company fed us dinner afterwards where we ...

... Africans feel as though ABC, where the majority of the focus in South Africa is on abstinence, represents a heavy-handed moralism out of touch with the reality of youth, Africa, and gender inequality - in other words it fails to take into account societal and cultural norms. On Monday, I went to an all-day training by a master's level psychologist with years of experience on Christian discipline with the youth and parents workers ...

... another truck, this one a smaller version of the one we had just spent a week on ! Then the rest of the tour group boards, all old, these ones even had hearing aids, but they were nice little old ladies at least. From there it was about a 3 hour trip through the moutains on the bumpiest road imaginable. When we reached the top we crossed the border and into a real village. The guide took us into on persons hut and ...

... ll wait until later or tomorrow morning when it might have calmed down.<br> Tomorrow I am heading to Port St Johns which is another beautiful spot along the Wild Coast here. I can see where it gets its name. After that I plan to meet back up with the guys I've been travelling with for a few days before we all go out separate ways again.<br> I'm having such a great time, and haven't really had chance to sit down and write any sort of detail to tell you guys back ...

... So thanks for the braii guys and see you in Scotland for the wedding! The weather wasnt that great but the beach was very nice and walked along it a couple of times. I just chilled out here and didnt go into the centre of town. (the backpackers was in a posh suburb called The Bluff) aye a know chicken baguette and all that ...