Back to School!

SWAZILAND!

Sibebe Rock

Table mountain!
 

 

The summer holidays are coming to an end and a new school year is just around the corner. Travelling has been amazing fun but a break from eating and drinking far too much and having such a good time is probably sensible...

 

We started back in November with a camping trip to Moremi game reserve with the german volunteers, Mr Dow, mp (a boy from school) and Leonard (the son of the carpenter). It was 2 nights camping at a place called 3rd bridge which is at the north of the park and at the very south of the delta where the water channels come to an end. We saw a lot of animals and many from the roof of a car
which was pretty incredible. We also took a boat trip on the delta which was very cool as there's lots of narrow branching channels, luckily the guy driving knew what he was doing.

 

Swaziland was next on the list and after a total of 22 hours on 3 separate buses and a rip off taxi drive at 10pm in the pouring rain we arrived at the girls project. We stayed at Clare's and Rachel's project for about 10 days where we had various trips around Swaziland. This included climbing Sibebe rock with a Sibebe beer in hand to drink at the top (unfortunately it wasn't ice cold after the 2 1/2 hour hike up), going caving and finishing in a hot spring, visiting the girls project and taking part
in the staff Christmas parties and eating and drinking far too much on an evening.

 

Next stop was Balito Bay in South Africa (I won't bore you with describing every stop) then on to Durban, Unzumbe, Drakensburg, coffee bay, Port Elizabeth for Christmas then Jeffrey's bay and finally Cape Town for New Year.

 

All of it was absolutely brilliant and ended far too soon! In 12 hours time we'll be driving the boys back up to school and I'm very much looking forward to starting the new school year.