Trip with Daddy!

On the 26th of April, my dad arrived!
For two weeks we've been traveling around the country. Our first days in Cape Town were dedicated to the re-discovery of Cape Town, and my favourite part was the Table Mountain!!! Windy at the top but such a wonderful view on CT and the neighborhoods!!!

Kwazulu-Natal: welcome to the Zulu Kingdom!

After two days in Cape Town, we flew to Durban, where we directly rented a car to drive straight to Hluhluwe (pronounce "chouchouwe" with a kind of elocution problem in your mouth) in Kwazulu Natal, North East of the country. We stayed three days in a game reserve (reserve naturelle) and saw sooo many things!
On the 'highways', people are walking on the side of the road, which made us think that since in France the life expectation on the side of a highway is said to be 20 minutes and people here live like that, obviously South Africans are much more resistant to car crashes than the French.
You can also buy pineapples, avocados and wood-made girafes on the side of the road, quite funny!

In terms of animals, we got friends with one elephant, one white rhino (or was it e grey one? never got the difference between them), several girafes, zebras, monkeys and antilopes.
We also went to Ste Lucia and the game reserve there, but we could only see rhinos, although the view and the beach were amazing there!



Swaziland

On our fourth day trip, we crossed the Swaziland border to enter the king Mswati II kingdom. Swaziland is quite bad known, although it breaks some of the world records in some specific areas. 40% of the population is infected by HIV, the country is one of the 42 enemies of the press freedom... It is an absolute monarchy with an unhidden personnality cult around Mswati II, you can findpictures of him everywhere in the country.

Apart from that, landscapes are beautiful but the two main cities where we went were quite disappointing, Ezulwini and Mbabane (the capital). We looked for candles during our two days there because it is supposed to be the country's specialty, but couldn't find any!
On the last day we went through the countryside and had more opportunity to meet people that looked happier to see us than the city men, and let us take pictures without yelling...
Then we crossed the Northern border of the country to go back to South Africa, in the Mpumalanga region.