Durban and Zinkwazi
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 21/Dec/2011 15:55, 34 days ago
The first stop on the three country Christmas tour was South Africa and Durban. It was hard to fairly judge Durban. On the one hand it was just good to be holiday, being away and enjoying some tasty food. We were only in the city for two nights, one full day, and spent that wandering around the city centre and beach front, which was packed with people enjoying the sea, sand and water parks. Live bands played away and there was a good feeling and friendly vibe about the place. The bits of the centre that we saw had obviously undergone a big facelift, mainly as a result of South Africa holding the 2012 World Cup, and had done much to make the city more accessible. Now to be unfair, it was simply not Cape Town, a city that I will happily visit again.After Durban we headed to a small, seaside hamlet of a place called Zinkwaki, which is around 80kms north of Durban. We stayed with some English doctor friends who Marco had met in Zambia and who were very welcoming as we took over their rather large house for a few days. We walked to the beach which took about 2 minutes, did not move much whilst there and enjoyed nights of good food and wine (plus some peach sparkling wine on Kristin’s birthday – a not to be repeated drink!), and pleasingly did little much else.