Nach der Safari ging es sofort weiter nach Swaziland. Dort wohnten wir mitten im Nationalpark. An unserem ersten Tag haben wir eine 4 stuendige Trekkingsafari unternommen. Puuhhh!!! Dafuer haben wir ein riesiges Krokodil gesehen, und ein paar Aeffchen und Zebras und und und... Obwohl gar keine Sonne da war und wir uns meistens durch den dichten Dschungel schlagen mussten haben wir beide etwas Sonnenbrand bekommen. Aber mittlerweile ist das schon braun :) Am naechsten Tag haben wir es dann etwas komfortabler versucht und sind auf Pferden durch den Nationalpark geritten. An unserem Hostel g [View Full Entry]

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Swaziland is a beautiful country and one of the few remaining true Kingdoms in the World. We had a relaxing 2 nights at Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary. It's very different scenery than what we've been through recently and in many ways it reminded us a little of home with the mountains and all. Since there are no predators in the park we were allowed to roam freely and enjoy the wildlife on foot. It was just a nice relaxing time and we were able to have a little time off the truck to ourselves. [View Full Entry]

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Out of the 47 countries in the world which I have visited, the tiny Kingdom of Swaziland has to rate in my top 5. It is a fascinating mix of relatively wealthy whites and a few middle class blacks, and many fairly poor blacks and feels very friendly and relaxed. It is green and very beautiful and has influences from South Africa in its lifestyle and supermarket culture. It feels quite wealthy after countries such as Malawi. Unfortunately up to 40% of its population is reported to be HIV positive but in spite of this horrendous statistic and a very low [View Full Entry]

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the next two days of the trip after kruger park we spent in the little kingdom of swaziland which is almost fully surrounded by south africa except for a short border with mozambique in the east (i even got some stamps in my passport, nice:)) driving through the country with its really beautiful landscape you could see the discrepancy in development between south africa and swaziland. swaziland seems to be a lot more rural and you still see a lot of these round african huts everywhere, so it looks a lot more the way we europeans imagine africa to look like. [View Full Entry]

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We'd left the hostel at Hluhluwe early in the afternoon, crossed the boarded into Swaziland and by nightfall arrived at the hostel - a few km off the 'main' road, down a bumpy unsealed track and seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The hostel I stayed at, Sondzela Backpackers, is within the Mlilwane wildlife reserve itself and turned out to be one of my favourites - located in a beautiful, tranquil setting everyone here was really friendly, and for a small additional cost you get a great meal each night (including a veggie option!!), cooked by the staff outside over an [View Full Entry]

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Blog Update You may have been wondering why we haven't published any blogs for the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, the Travel Blog website crashed and resulted in the loss of thousands of people's entries, including ours. We are trying to retrieve our old entries, without a huge amount of success, but in the meantime our priority is to get the new entries published so you can see what we've been upto. Hopefully we will be able to recover our old entries, but for the time being, you won't be able to see them on our blog. Journey to Swaziland Set [View Full Entry]

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Stayed on the sanctuary and spent the days hiking and horseback riding. [View Full Entry]

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The kingdom of Swaziland is a little jewel in the heart of southern Africa. This small country has a long tradition of kings ruling the country from the Ezulwini valley, and gained independence from Britain in 1968. The original constitution was largely modeled on the English system, however it has subsequently been abolished and the king now rules Swaziland as an absolute monarch. The famous reed dance is an annual ceremony where the King chooses a new young bride from the naked girls who dance before him. Swaziland is surrounded by South Africa and the border with Mozambique to the east, [View Full Entry]

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Greetings! So i've got alot to get through in this entry! It'll have to be brief. We've now finished the project phase, but since my last entry, we've been working on two different game reserves, Mbuluzi and Hlane. We were first at Mbuluzi, doing a game ranger course (for which I have a rather snazzy certificate). Then we were at Hlane, which is the royal national park. Here we were trail blazing, which involved cutting a walking trail through the reserve next to a hippo and croc infested lake (SAFETY...!!). Hlane was cool the manager is a nutter, catcing snakes, taking [View Full Entry]

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Yebo!! Greetings from Swaziland. We have now headed south down the coast into the Kingdom of Swaziland. The first thing that struck me was the number of cattle here - it literally did almost strike me as our mini bus dodged a kamikaze bovine as it stepped out in front of us on the highway. Some interesting facts about Swaziland: It is a Kingdom and hence ruled by a King. They call this absolute power but it sounds to me like a bit of a dictatorship - but then neither of us here ever studied politics or history! This King really [View Full Entry]

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