http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Swaziland , Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:16:52 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:16:52 +0000 Stayed on the sanctuary and spent the days hiking and horseback riding. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-399772.html 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 Sonnen http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-377328.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-280986.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-247261.html 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 aft http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-224834.html 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 se http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-198980.html Blog UpdateYou 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-190323.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-161720.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-141464.html 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 powe http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-108810.html From Swazi BP it was a short mini bus trip to the Matsapha market turn off followed by a 1 or 2 km walk to the House on Fire tourist centre where we scored a lift in the back of a pick up with an expat who was going where we were going Sondzela BP. It was almost too easy. Set within the grounds of the Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary Sondzela was spectacular and beautiful. There were no staff around http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-73124.html St Lucia was difficult to leave behind but we had a cross border mission to accomplish for Fedders in Swaziland. The border was a bit more active than our last excursion into Lesotho but just to confirm that everything has it's price in Africa one guy managed to gain entry with an out of date passportWe opted to stay away from the bright lights of Manzini or Mbabne in a backpackers within Milwa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-71723.html After our stressful bus ride we reached Swaziland on Monday night. Swaziland is a country that is land bound between South Africa and Mozambique it is similar in many ways to South Africa but it feels much more rural and much less westernised. We arrived at Sondzela backpackers which is situated on Milwane game reserve its a very cool little place with alot of luxuries infact i can't believe http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-9037.html From St Lucia we took the Baz bus in preference to changing bus 5 times on the way to Sondzela backpackers in Mliwane Game Park Swaziland. This was an amazing place to stay right in the Park with a pool and lovely facilities. On the first day there we took a walk around the park and saw many Wart Hogs Wildebeest and bucks. We kept our eye out for Hippos once we got to the lake since we hadn't http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Swaziland/Mlilwane-Wildlife-Sanctuary/blog-4886.html