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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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although it was dark and not too many other guys around. This was probably only due to us having been told that the area was safe.
We finally decided to eat at a restaurant called "Circus Circus", located inside the mall. I ordered a Chicken Salad and got more salad than I was able to eat. Also, service was incredibly fast, in fact we'd never been to a restaurant with such rapid service! We were really impressed!
After dinner we went back to Nomads and relaxed a bit before going to bed at 2200.
Day 24 - July 20
We got up around 0700. May Tina had not slept very well because of some noise during the night. At the moment the place was rather quiet, though, because most people seemed to already have left on the Baz Bus. We made our own breakfast in the kitchen and prepared some food to take with us. Then we just sat around waiting for a while.
There were two dogs hanging around at Nomads and the smallest one was the cuddliest dog we have ever seen. It immediately came over to us and rolled over on the back because it wanted to be stroked on its stomach. It just wouldn't go away from us! It was the second cutest dog ever!
At 0830 we were driven down to the Greyhound bus terminal by a guy from Nomads. We were kind of relieved to see that it was located at a completely different place than the local bus terminal, which Kurt had pointed out as the worst area in Durban. The bus turned out to be very nice as well, much better than we had expected after riding with Greyhound in Florida.
The bus left on schedule at 0900 and we had a long ride ahead of us. The reason it took so long was that it didn't follow the motorway, but instead went along small roads in Zululand. The scenery was quite nice, mostly quite open in yellow and green colours, and we seemed to be going up and down small hills a lot of the time.
There were televisions on the bus that
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South Africa Gallery
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Swaziland Gallery
