Towards the end of South Aftica...

Hello Peoples…

Sorry for the years I’ve taken to add Blogs to my Blog..! I’m now in Sri Lanker (arrived 20th Feb) and leave for Tokyo tomorrow (24th arriving 25th Feb)…excited or nervous…I’m still deciding…

Here’s hopefully the rest of South Africa...after the Drakensburg I headed down to Durban City…the 3rd largest community of Indians outside India (behind Birmingham, believe it or not…?!) I stayed here for a while, recharging my batteries and leaving my camera at the Back Packers every time I went out for a walk - whether it was broad day light or you were a local African - the likely hood was at some point you’d be mugged…as a pale tourist I wasn’t taking any chances…many times when I did venture out into the city among the lovely food smells I found I was the only white person on the many over populated streets I walked through…It quite literally felt like I was an ‘alien’ from another world…I loved that feeling…

After Durban I headed to St Lucia, 4 hours along the coast, east, to Hippo and Croc country…here on the first day I went on a ‘booze cruz’ and saw many Hippos and was amazed to find you could canoe along the river where Crocs the size of well… canoes were swimming along side you.

Guide: ‘don’t worry they can’t get you if you’re in the canoe’..!
Rob: and if you happen to fall out?!...
Guide: silence.

I didn’t go anywhere near a canoe in St Lucia.

However I did go to my first real safari park, ‘real’ in the sense that if you stepped out of your vehicle you’d most likely become someone’s dinner…and around the park in some places there was no fence…just a ‘natural barrier’ ie, an easily cross-able river…The video is of my first wild Giraffe…and the picture of the 'Big Five' I guess is a warning...?!?!
...hee hee

enjoy….

written by

willrob on January 12, 2010 from Saint Lucia Estuary, South Africa

from the travel blog: Rob Williams 'a year in the making'

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