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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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Day 22 - July 18
The "Walk to Freedom tour" was supposed to start at 0830, so we got up at 0715 to have time to eat breakfast and prepare. When we came down into the kitchen it turned out that someone else had been eating from our bread. We could have lived with that, but not with the fact that the culprits hadn't wrapped it properly afterwards, thereby enabling a a cockroach to slip inside and crawl around on our bread. We immediately suspected that the "antisocials" were the guilty ones. It had to be them or the Super-backpacker since there were nobody else around.
In any case, we had somehow lost out appetite for that particular bread, so we went down to the 7-11 down the street and bought a new one. Fortunately, there was still plenty of time for eating breakfast before the tour started
The guide from Legend Tours arrived at 0820. First we drove around to pick up the other people who were going on the tour. There were two Dutch girls, a guy from London and an American family from Kentucky. Our guide was a strange but funny guy. His name was Frank, he was black and had grown up in Soweto. However, I became slightly suspicious of his moral character when he confessed to being a Man. United fan. I tried to make him aware of his error, but he could not be convinced. Actually, he had never heard of neither Liverpool nor Arsenal, so I guess he didn't follow English football too closely.
Despite his bad taste in football, he actually turned out to be a very good guide. The first thing we did was drive up to the Muslim area in Cape Town. It was located in a hillside with a very good view of the city center and Table Mountain. The houses were really colourful and everything looked very nice. I had never seen such steep roads anywhere before (though I haven't been to San Fransisco), and a few of them were almost scary.
Leaving the Muslim area we drove through the downtown area which was almost
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