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Before flying to Durban we went on a guided tour of the black and coloured townships of Cape Town. It was a very interesting to see the conditions which a large part of the population had to endure, but we also learned that the situation was not hopeless and improvements were certainly happening. After spending the night in Durban we travelled back to Swaziland to stay at an orphanage in Nhlangano which was run by Borgny, a relative of ours.
South African Adventure 1999, Part 8: From Cape Town back to Swaziland via Durban
Jan Arild Teland2006-05-08 20:24:05
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there late at night looking for a taxi, can we?
We didn't really want to cancel our reservation at Drifters because we had paid for the rooms in advance, and it would probably be a lot of hazzle getting the money back. We decided to give Drifters one last chance before finding another place to stay. We called Drifters and suggested that they picked us up in the small town Midrand, which on the map didn't look much further away from the Drifters Inn, instead of Johannesburg. At first the woman (Crystal) at Drifters was opposed to the idea, but then she suddenly changed her mind, and said that they would make an exception for us and pick us up in Johannesburg! However, jokingly she said that we would have to buy her a chocolate as a reward. It was great to have finally have all details sorted out.
It was now getting late in the day, so we decided not to bother with going down to the city center. Instead we decided on visiting a Botanical Garden in the area, which was supposed to be very nice. Getting directions from the guy at Nomads, we set off walking up the street. However, after walking back and forth for some time, we were getting really confused as there just wasn't any Botanical Garden where our map said it should be. Surely this was due to the Botanical Garden spontaneously disappearing, and had nothing to do with our map reading skills :-) In the end we gave up and just went back to the mall.
We bought some supplies for tomorrow and then went to the cinema inside the mall. There we decided to watch "Mod Squad" at 1715, and bought some chocolate, popcorn and drinks to really to enjoy ourselves. Unfortunately, the movie was nothing special.
Coming out from the movie, we noticed that it was too cold outside to walk around in shorts, so went back to Nomads to put on some more clothes. Then we walked around the streets for a while, looking for a place to eat. We felt perfectly safe walking around here although
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