Long dayFriday, August 20. We fly to Durbin this morning then take a short tour of the city before driving to Hluhluwe in Zululand. Before arriving at our hotel, we stop at a Zulu collective market to buy native goods. The market is run largely by women who make and sell their products, drums, jewelry, wooden bowls. We don't get into the hotel till 6 pm, twelve hours after we left the Cape Town hotel. Very long day. Unfortunately the beautiful brightly colored, beaded bracelet I bought, started ripping apart before I even got to the hotel. Oh, well. I think of it as a tiny bit of support for their economy. Tomorrow our day starts at 5 am again, but this time we're going out for our first game drive. We're really excited. The adventure
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