Southern Hotel Durban

... that day.  This bus would transport us through the end of the trip. We drove through the city centre of Durban en route to our hotel, and the sunshine and mild weather raised everyone’s mood.  Temperatures were in the low 70s and all of ...

... inside.  I gave the first 2 quizzes for Geography 5, and most of the group did fine.  I lectured on Southern African countries (Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana) and then gave my final lecture for Geography 1.  It felt ...

... had agreed to drop the camera at a specific shop in the Gateway Shopping Centre, the largest mall of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, if you've been to Bluewater, Lakeside or even the Trafford Centre, you've seen similar and we didn't ...

... gave us some of her freshly cooked bread and knocked it back with her local brew - delicious! After 2 nights in the southern berg we headed up to the northern berg, staying in the wonderfully positioned Ampitheatre backpackers.  It was where ...

... backpackers were extremely nice with swimming pools and all the amenities a backpacker would need, and i realized im getting into southern africa now and things are really starting to improve, accommodation wise.  As i was walking around the hostel, ...

... just when I'd got used to the sweaty heat!  Before crossing the border though, I stopped at a nice little backpackers in the Southern Drakensberg at the beginning of the road that wound its way up to Lesotho. I spent a fun two nights here - going ...

... eyes", from the 1964 classic, but hugely inaccurate movie). Historically, the Zulu’s became one of the most powerful clans in Southern Africa in the early 1800’s under the leadership of King Shaka, who was born on the outskirts of eShowe. Once ...

Upon our return to South Africa we found ourselves on our own again, this time in Durban. Despite the fact that we were staying in the 'Southern Sun' Hotel, it was raining heavily (You wonder why we wear our raincoats in every photo). The following ...

... on email and lounged outside by John´s pool. We also spent an afternoon in the second-largest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere. South Africans take particular pride in their shopping malls. At night, we ate out at nice restaurants enjoying a few ...

... headed to the bus station to catch a luxury minibus (no stop-starting, hooray) to Rach Gia, on the southern Vietnamese coastline. Arriving at Kim Co Hotel around dinner time, we grabbed a quiet bite at the restaurant nearby and then back to the hotel ...

... the Atlantic where it meets False Bay and not the Indian Ocean which is about 90 miles further east at Cape Angulhas the true southern most point of the continent.  From there we drove up the east coast of the peninsula on the Lost Bay side, ...

... the coast, through Simon’s Town and some of the most beautiful beach towns I have ever seen, stopping at Cape Point – the Southern-most tip of Africa – and back up through Chapman's Peak.  We created our own version of House Hunters ...

... and around the sunken ship.  Here we saw many schools of fish moving in sync as they zipped about the wreck, tiny durban dancing shrimp, 2 juvenile white eyed moray eels and a giant puffer fish!!  Although we were in a small group of 5, ...

... food, drink, clothes -Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town – Stunning location -Great weather Weaknesses: -Taxi prices -Durban (except the Hilton Hotel) -Some people seem a bit unfriendly -The underlying threat (mainly from the media) about being a victim ...

... With new passengers for the second half of the trip we left Cape Town for Stellenbosch and wine tasting at 10:00 a.m. followed by Southern Right whale spotting at Hermans.  After that we visited an ostrich farm at Cango and saw a baby hatch from an ...

... who is originally from Zimbabwe and has traveled around the world crewing on yachts and she had also traveled quite a bit in southern Africa.  She got us all excited about traveling the world while we stuffed ourselves on some amazing food.   ...

... ; Cape Town to Singapore and then Singapore to Hong Kong. Namibia We had been to Namibia in 1998 as part of our time driving around southern Africa so we didn't feel the need to repeat what we had done then. This time we kept it simple: We spent one ...

... two trips for the price of one. Yay!! The sharks were HUGE that we saw from the surface today, pretty cool! And we saw SOuthern Right Whales and Fur Seals today too. SUper cute!! I still feel like I'm on the boat right now all dizzy sealeggy lol... So ...

... in Perth know we would be arriving late and buying some airtime for the internet we jumped on the free shuttle to the Southern Sun Hotel a few hundred metres from the airport. Once we got there and handed over our letter to checkin we were handed a ...