Blogs from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa - page 14

Hi folks, its been a while but we are are still going strong, we are back in sunny and warm KZN at a park near shelly beach (port shepstone area) called Lalanathi, realy a nice park. The owners took over this park 2 years ago and are really doing a good job,lovely green lawns and plenty trees, a nice little pool and close to a beutifull beach, the hole familly gets involved and interact with the campers every day,one or more of the familly (dad mom and 2 sons) just pop in to have a chat. Once again i find the parks in Kzn are more helpfull than anywhere else we have been, it seems standerd practice for these people to put up your tent and help set up camp as soon as you arive, at ... read more

We were in Cusco on a Monday morning...and ready to re-settle in our flat on Monday night. Than Tuesday morning, I left for 2 weeks to Africa...via Sao Paolo and Johannesburg...direction Kinshasa. Everything should have gone smoothly, but it simply didn't. Congo, aka DRC is seemed to be ranked 192nd for "ease of doing business" by the UN...out of 192 countries....yes, doing business or simply travelling here is actually more complicated than trying to reach places like Afghanistan or Iraq....even if most of Congo is actually way safer. There is no Embassy of DRC anywhere close to where I live...so forget about applying directly for a visa. The solution is actually pretty simple...you've got the right paperwork and "they" apply for you for a "visa on arrival", valid 7 days once you enter the country...visa that ... read more

My mom always told us of a cruise that her parents went on when she was still small. The Father person in our house found a fairly affordable cruise from Durban to Mozambique for a few days. And we jumped at the opportunity. I have to be honest here before I go on. I am not a cruise girl. I like the bush. Not the sea. I like plain and simple. Not flashy and fancy. I like peace and quiet. Not activities and noise. But there we went... I spent most of my time on the outskirts of the ship in the fresh air, watching fish and dolphins and admired the most amazing groups of jelly fish about the size of a good umbrella milling in the absolutely gloriously blue water all along the Mozambique coast. ... read more

We left for Durban early Tuesday morning and had an uneventful drive down, apart from the awful weather as we got into Natal, heavy rain and fog patches. We were staying a week with Wendy and Barrie, a very quiet house now that the 2 boys have left home, but it was lovely to see them again and catch up on all our news. In fact so much news that it took Wendy and I until 2am the first night before we decided to go to bed, Wendy claimed to be very tired the next day and said it had nothing to do with the empty wine bottles under the bar! We also stayed a night with James and Lee which was lovely as we hadn't seen James for absolutely ages as he has been working ... read more

Nomaly the best expiriences that a human kind can ever expirience go untold. perhaps that should change, and the change start with me.. i have visited durban peers, with three of my friends two weeks ago and i tell you, the expiriences we got from visiting the province is second best to none. all we were busy with, in the city was spend time with the beautiful friendly people, walking around at the famous golden mile, visited the sea to swimm and take part in other water activities, explored five different shopping malls such as the gate way and the work shop shopping centre, embarked on two different walking tours to victoria erbarkment and muti market, dug deep into our political history as we visited kwamuhle museam and lastly every after a very very long and ... read more