Collegiate World Challenge to South Africa!

Heya everyone!! we've been in SA for 2 days now...

yesterday we went to the botanical gardens after walking the entire perimeter trying to find the gate! It was beautiful and luscious. We had some different fruits for afternoon tea which included a fruit which was a cross between a peach and a nectarine and some Papaya which tasted like tea and chocolate. We then had a BBQ dinner at Dee’s house (Mrs. Anning’s sister) which was lovely! Their house was amazing (we even got to swim in their pool!) and they were lovely people!

Today we went to the BAT Centre which was an African art gallery. The art work there was absolutely awesome!! they had heaps of different wood cuts (similar to lino prints) paintings, sculptures, pots, baskets, wire and beaded figurines! We decided that we are definitely going back there at the end of our trip to buy them out!!

We then walked around down town Durban trying to find an apartheid museum using a map that didn’t include many roads. Most of the street names down here also changed recently which also made it difficult. We had a look at the natural science museum at a NO SMOKING display which was a bit random but pretty cool. they had this camera and computer program that showed you what you’d look like at age 72 and added the effects of sun exposure and smoking… pretty freaky stuff!!

We haven’t been treated to another thunderstorm yet (but have been told that the one we saw in the plane was a bigg’in even by South Africa’s standards!

We’ve got an early start in the morning as we head off to the game park, hluhluwe imfiloze at 6:15 in the morning! we are all extremely pumped!!


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