Tum'S George Hotel Manzini

... to people as if he&#8217;d known them since he was a kid but in fact had just met them then!!! We had our first stop at some people&#8217;s farm for a cold drink where we spoke with a local lady - Her English was very so we were able to have a nice conversation &#8211; she was very interested in us actually. As we left 2 youngsters arrived with their Ipods &#8211; unexpected!!<br><br>We hit the road again and encountered a lot more people still waving at us. We had a ...

... it is very difficult for them to afford them. I saw a school bus absolutely packed going uphill and it was leaning very heavily to one side - I have no idea how it made it to its destination.<br><br>I saw a puzzling poster saying: "Be the winner - fight AIDS / HIV" with an American Flag at the bottom. What the hell was the American flag doing there? It's like the Coca Cola signs absolutely everywhere! I just don&#8217;t get it!<br><br>I ...

... Mswati III. In another month, several thousands of females will dance in front of him and he will pick one to be his next wife. He presently has 17 wives and this occasion goes on every year of his reign. We&#8217;re not sure if we see an upside in any of this custom. On the other hand, Swaziland is the only place that hands out free condoms when you enter and leave their border. Our guide calls them "Swazi candy". Oh well, we say roll 'em (on) if you got em ...

... border, taking some photos of the Welcome to South Africa sign as we departed that country. People seemed to be excited to be in a new country, where we were immediately treated to views of homesteads consisting of several thatched huts all in the traditional style of daub and wattle walls. The amount of roadside litter was definitely more than in South Africa, and the standard of living lower. The schools were not on holiday yet, so it was ...

... the meds. I hope she does as this kid will likely die if he doesn't get the meds, but what can you do when people have certain stigmas or notions about some disease. I also got to practice some family medicine!! There was this lady who came for an appointment b/c needed to get refills on her meds since she just delivered her child 3 weeks ago. I finished up the interview and planned on the meds to give her. I called my supervising doc, and ...

... trapped in the area between the lung and the rib cage and compresses the lung). This can be a huge problem if the lung gets pushed to the point it impedes breathing. This kid had the lung displaced i would say about 30 percent. The treatment for this is to put a tube in the chest. That is the ONLY treatment, you got to decompress the gas that is there so the patient could breathe normally. Well the surgeon that was consulted, who was called "Dodgy" (aka questionable character ...

... to make sure just in case the parent leaves, that someone can give the child meds. b/c if not, then you are just breeding resistent strains of HIV. When taken properly, these medications work extremely well. the kid was also very juandiced, was grabbing his right side of his stomach, and c/o of pain there....all signs he either has an infective hepatitis (which if he does , will likely be the end of his life) or reaction to the medications he is ...

... of Swaziland there are, but after about half an hour of driving, cows were appearing not ten yards in front of me out of the fog, so not wanting to kill innocent cattle we turned around at the Maguga Dam. On our way back down we went to the glass blowing factory which was insanely hot. Despite not getting to Pigg's Peak, I think we got the best we could out of Swaziland.

... local craft market which essentially is a row of shacks filled with beaded jewellry and carved wood. There was no pressure to buy anything, very relaxed, I like that. On the way to and from the craft market we took a Khombi taxi. The use of these is not recommended in SA but is safe enough in Swazi. Khombis are the locals mode of transport, so there are no frills, and a no frills fare too. It cost us R4 each to be packed like sardines into a ...

... doing his current route from Cape Town to Ethiopia. His company was called Peace Peddlers and he was an absolute legend. Jamie was off to Willwane Nature reserve the next day so I joined him on the back of his bike at 6am and we headed for the nature reserve. We got there at around 7am after an hour of cycling and headed into the reserve which was beautiful at that time in the morning with ...