Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel Durban

... to split our journey and boarded a minibus for Swaziland, about 1/3 of the way to Durban. It was a miserable day (I think I cursed ourselves bragging about summer last time) and we had our bags getting wet in a trailer on the back - just as we were about to leave a lady near us started to shout and point to her bag. We're not exactly sure what happened but think she was accusing someone of ateling her purse ...

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>

... them with, no mention that that &#8216;mess&#8217; is by far the most developed country in sub-Saharan Africa. All that could change. Fortunately it&#8217;s not my problem, not alone anyway.<br><br>The next morning the inclement weather looks pretty socked in. The only way to get out of the doldrums of the wide Sargasso Sea is to paddle harder. So I get to work making plans. I Skype Swaziland and find a place to stay, then buy a Baz Bus ticket for the ...

... days. Enter Kag in a bag. Much of the rest of our time in Durban was spent in shopping centres, cinemas and the hostel. We managed to get to Gateway, the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere which has a waverider and a climbing wall. This was all very impressive but was a massive drain on our daily budget, the taxi alone cost R400 return. But I moan too much, Durban is cool (actually it's very hot or very wet). Sorry about the lack of photos!

Well, here we are! The flight was interesting, especially as when we flew over Paris, the French were celebrating Bastille Day with thousands of fireworks displays - certainly the way to start our trip off with a bang...at 11 o'clock at night!!!! After being met by Iona at Durban airport we dropped off our bags and then headed up to ...

... is where I got it from as they sneeze all over me without covering their mouths. I went to pick up my laundry on Sat. at John and Melanie's house. John had told me when I dropped off the laundry on Thurs. night that their two kids had this nasty gastrointestinal virus during the week. Well, apparently the ~30 min. that I spent there on Sat. morning were too much for my already run down immune system. I worked on a paper ...

... inte knackt koden for hur jag ska bygga upp svaret (som det maste goras for att klara muntan med professorn). Jag hoppar over sjalvklara saker, borjar i fel ande... Men jag maste erkanna att natrium inte ar min polare. Som en av specialisterna uttryckte det: "Sodium must be your mate! You must be like this (tvinnar pek- och langfinger samman)!" Men jag lar mej saker varje dag! Och inte minst motiveras jag att studera till min slutexamen.

... caravans and were driving around South Africa. They looked as if they had stepped out of a smart hotel and not at all as I would have looked after sleeping and dressing in a small camper. On the lagoon we saw crocodiles, a herd of hippos, and several beautiful water birds such as the Ibis. At the end of the cruise it started to rain quite heavily and we ended up huddled in the middle of the boat ...

... took us to the Indian Market by the waterfront and we hung out there, chatted and enjoyed Durban's beachfront on a Sunday afternoon. It was quite a treat for both of us to be the guests of friends rather than staying at a backpackers, and one that we both enjoyed immensely. It was so warm in Durban that I woke up and got Kristen to cut my hair - we decided on a Mohican which is nice and cool. We stayed with Wayne for a couple of nights and then headed up to St Lucia wetlands by bus.