Umhlanga Sands 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>

... and it was bloody cold.<br> The only warm place to be (including the rooms) was the dining room where they had a log fire, so drank too much but enjoyed the company.<br> We drove across Swaziland and entered SA again heading for the coast to a place called Haga Haga, a very small village with spectacular coastal beaches, crashing waves and hillside walks, we enjoyed it all for a couple of days.....we were the only people staying there so ...

... thrown in there. I apologized for our tight Peace Corps budget , we gave her some christmas cookies and apples and continued on to Durban. Finally at Durban, Anstey's is a nice backpackers on the beach in South Durban in an area that is packed with what looks like wealthy South Africans' beach houses/condos. Our first few days in the surfer town were a little disappointing since we were looking forward to a little relaxation/recharge time on the ...

... to one and beers have gone up to fifteen rand, making them a pound each. Sorry to throw all this maths at you (which isn't exactly right if you reread that) but basically every time I go back I am shocked at how much I have to fork out for a beer. Even though it's some of the cheapest in the world (bottle store prices are probably a third of that). Another thing that's the cheapest in the world is our electricity. That's a fact, if you read the papers. The ...

... business district of Durban. The building was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, bore witness to both the South African Wars and the Bambatha Rebellion, and more recently acted as a recruitment centre and canteen during both World Wars. It was here that African men were given sanction to enter the city or were denied access and had to pay the mandatory Poll Tax. At the ...

... the service, they had breakfast sandwiches for sale, and most people stayed to fellowship with one another. Everyone whom I met was very friendly towards me. On Sunday afternoon, friends of Melanie and John's came over for a braai, or barbecue. The husband, Johann, is from the Netherlands, and the wife, Ursula, is from Austria. They have two young children as well. Johann and Ursula met and lived in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for ...

... sa mycket morfin som manniskor av indiskt ursprung! Att indierna nastan i dubbelt sa stor utstrackning drabbas hjartinfarkt! Det ar liksom som att ... om jabbet hemma ar en promenad pa en aeng, sa ar det har som att spela "minroej" - pang! sa gar du pa en mina i form av ovantat komplicerad soevning om du inte passar dig. Har hunnit se en del av det beryktade skottskadorna, men de flesta i ett lugnt skede - en saarig arm som maste opereras ...

... class ticket and told how to request a refund of the unused part of my third-class ticket. But my petition to the office in Pretoria went unanswered; perhaps they felt that a flouter of their finely symmetric racial system (subsection railways) deserved to pay extra. The last leg of that journey was by a steam train from Bloemfontein to Maseru. The only white person on ...

... in time for their big "Durb*n July" which is like the Kentucky Derby horse r*ces in the st*tes. Amir *nd I decided to go, *nd the people *t the hostel told us to dress up. So Amir *nd I put on our best clothes (kh*kis, coll*red shirt, long bl*ck pe*s*nt skirt *nd * t-shirt!)*nd he*ded out. It w*s kind of f*r *w*y, but we w*nted to w*lk through the m*rkets *nd things to get there. We stopped to buy * coke, check the m*p *nd then continued. Not ...