Ezulwini Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Oh my goodness. Got up SUPER early, like 4am early... well the alarm went off at 4.10 I refused to budge until 4.30am leaving me with 15 minutes to look presentable and make tracks to main lobby where we were to wait for park ranger dude to show up with jeep to take us on our safari of Kruger (140R (US$14) pp for 3 hours - not bad. Leaves either...

Dave and I decided to head to Swaziland next. Swaziland is a small country to the north of South Africa. We stayed at Sondzela, which was a gorgeous hostel located on the Milwane Nature Preserve. As I was sitting by the pool, an ostrich came up and started trying to mess around with my stuff. There were also tons of zebras just outside of the fe...

Swaziland is great except for the lack of internet, phones, mosquito repelant...  To be fair I think we went to the wrong part we might of enjoyed it more in one of the towns, but being in the middle of a reserve the things you can do there are way out of our budget. so off we wnt on th ebaz bus again!

Na een nachtje Nelspruit vinden we dat we het verdiend hebben om nog eens wat langer te slapen! Trouwens, de Bazbus komt toch pas rond 14u15 langs om ons op te halen en in Nelspruit is anders toch niets te doen... Samen met Rod (de Fransman van op safari) en Clay en Angela (Canadees koppel) nemen we de Bazbus richting Swaziland. Al vanaf het beg...

Welcome to Swaziland... your money is tasty. The Ezulwini valley is meant to be the cradle of Royal culture. Apart from a parliament house the size of a phone box, a memorial to a dead King that you can't take photos in, and a museum that take 4 minutes to see, the highlight here is (a) the scenety (b) the handicrafts market. Credit where credit...