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It had been our intention to go on a bicycle safari with a company called Swazitrails, but when they failed to pick us up, we instead booked a safari at Mkhaya Game Reserve the following day and returned to Nhlangano. The game drive at Mkhaya was one of the highlights of the trip as we drove in an open safari vehicle and came incredibly close to the wildlife, including a large group of elephants.
Southern Africa 2000 - Part 6: Swaziland and home to Norway
Jan Arild Teland2006-05-09 00:07:54
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December 1, Friday
Someone's alarm clock started beeping at 06.50 and we got up straight after that. At breakfast we discovered that somebody had stolen our strawberry jam from the kitchen during the night. Not a terrible crime in itself, but pretty annoying there and then.
Today we had booked a mountain bike safari with a company called Swazitrails, but Jan Arild's knee was hurting and I was tired from yesterday so we weren't really feeling very excited about it. Before going outside to wait for them, I ran into Mthunzi who had just gotten out of bed. "Aah, Tina!", he yelled when he saw me, "Come and give me a hug!", which I did. "Did you sleep well?" he asked, and I answered truthfully that "No, I hadn't". "Cool!" was his reply. I had noticed that "cool" was a word he used quite often and I assumed that he had picked it up from an American film, but this was maybe not the right context to use it in? :-)
Swazitrails didn't show up for our appointment at 08.30, but we decided to give them until 09.00 before giving up on them. We were both now hoping they wouldn't come. While we were waiting, the Angolan guy came out and asked a boy that was sweeping the sidewalk if there was a driving school in town. I knew there was one because I had seen it yesterday. It had stuck in my mind because it had been located in a small shed and looked a little unprofessional with learning cars that looked like wrecks. Anyway he set out to find the place and we thought good luck to him. On the other hand, he was probably just going down there to point out that it is much hotter in Angola than in Swaziland :-)
Swazitrails never arrived so we went back in to ask Bruno if he could book a trip to Mkhaya tomorrow for us instead. He was happy to do so and would organize everything while we looked around town. Mkhaya is a privately owned game reserve and we had been told that it was very good, despite
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