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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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group had written down their contact information on a piece of paper. This was supposed to be photocopied and distributed to everyone, but we never got a copy since we left for St. John's so early. We therefore went down to Drifters now to obtain the address list now, but nobody seemed to be around at the moment. At least there was no reaction when we rang the doorbell.
Having only eaten breakfast today, we were now really hungry. We therefore walked down the street and entered the first fastfood restaurant we came across. It turned out to be a Subway restaurant, so we both had a sub with all kinds of good stuff inside.
Our original plan had been to go up Table Mountain after the "Walk to Freedom Tour". The weather this morning had been splendid, the best we'd seen in Cape Town so far. However, it had suddenly changed so that now the clouds were hovering just below the top of the mountain, making it pointless to go up there to view the city. Instead we decided to go down to the Waterfront area again.
We walked down to the ocean, where the bus was running, and got on the first bus to the Waterfront. This turned out to be the noisiest bus we'd ever been on, a miracle that it was functioning at all! The sound was ringing in our ears long after we'd left the bus!
We decided to catch another movie and bought tickets to "Plunkett and Maclaine" at 1715. None of us had ever heard of it before. Since there were a few hours before the movie started, we went to visit the famous Aquarium which was also located inside the Waterfront area.
It was a huge and very nice Aquarium. They had all kinds of exhibitions with fish and stuff from the sea. I'm sure it was possible to learn a lot from this place if one has the time to walk around and really study everything, but unfortunately we were only able to get a brief impression of most of the exhibitions.
It turned out we had arrived just in time
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See photographs from:
South Africa Gallery
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Swaziland Gallery
