-“You are the reincarnations of Lord Varuna and Lord Vayu”, the priest at the Shri Sanathan Mundal Temple in Stanger, told us. We looked at each other in disbelief. -“Don’t you worry, you’re just not aware of it yet, but I’m 100% sure.” He said and smiled as we nodded hesitantly. -“Of course you must stay with us here at the temple tonight, together with the other Gods. I’ll first go and have my wife prepare us some chai.” He made no sign of joking and disappeared, skipping up the s [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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Swaziland is great to drive through....but better to stop. We made our stop in Hlane Nat. Park...nice campspot where we were surprised by a nice culture show in the evening around the campfire. Next days Game Drive was even better.....Eye to eye with some Lions at just a couple of meters was great!! Trying with your rental car to drive through te parks 4wd tracks was also a nice adventure!! After Swaziland we went through St. Lucia Wetlands and made it to Durban! Just a city, awfull hostel but luckily some good food, nice movie a bit of shopping and Ushaka [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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There we stood on the side of a dusty, dirt road in the warm early morning sun. We were surrounded by a band of proud Zulu warriors to be and we all stood there and listened in awe as our phenomenal guide, Evan Jones, told us a tale so fantastic and surreal that it seemed to be a masterpiece of fiction, one worthy of the highest praise, yet every word was true! The story started with peace and harmony, like most stories do. The land was divided: on one side of the river were several colonies from Europe living in small [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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We passed into the border of Swaziland and were astonished to see that virtually all road signage stopped immediatly! I don't know how people get around, as the maps are pretty primitive and inaccurate too! Still we did manage to get to our campsite within the Royal Hlane Game Reserve without too much drama. Our cabin was a very styley little thatch hut, with no electricity! But was very clean and comfortable. The campsite is right beside a watering hole, so we could sit on our deck and watch the hippos and crocs swimming around, which was fun, but a [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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