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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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23 - July 19
We got up at 0800, made our own breakfast in the kitchen, and went down to the Drifters Inn in one final attempt to obtain the address list. Unfortunately, it was nowhere to be found, but Wilhelmina promised to obtain the list from Kurt and fax it to Drifters in Johannesburg so that we could pick it up there on our last day.
Back at St. John's we just hung around waiting for our transport to the airport. Erroll had arranged for something called the Backpacker bus to pick is up, and it promptly arrived at 0925. After picking up some other guy from a hostel downtown, we drove directly to the airport. The driver kept having a dialogue with himself about other people's driving, with which he was not very pleased! May Tina thought he was quite scary and was glad to be alive when we got to the airport. The ride cost us 60R each.
The airport turned out to be quite small, so checking in and finding our gate was no problem. We were flying with a company called Sun Air, which we'd never heard about before booking the tickets. Although the plane was a little late, we were satisfied with the service we received (but after flying Lufthansa, anything will seem good!). We landed in Durban almost on schedule at 1300.
The airport in Durban was also very small, and it didn't take us long to pick up our baggage and find the arrival hall. However, on trying to phone Nomads to confirm our arrival, we only got response from a fax machine. Since the shuttle was just leaving, and the next shuttle wasn't until an hour, we decided to get on it, and just make our own way to the hostel.
After a twenty minute drive, we got off somewhere in the city center. We couldn't recognize anything from our previous visit to Durban (but then we had only been to the beach area). The place was very busy and there were people all around. It looked quite safe to us. We walked a few blocks in an arbitrary
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