We started off the morning by visiting Durban Botanic gardens, which were clearly a peaceful jem amidst the city. Said to have been establishe in 1849 as an experiment station for tropical crops it has spectacular cycad and palm trees, whose collection is believed to be among the largest of their kind in the world. Its beauty stems from the Victorian type garden with rather special little peaceful corners. We strolled around for about one hour in what ended up setting the "scene" for the day.
The next adventure was the PheZulu park situated in the Botha's Hill with magnificent views over the valley of the 1000 Hills. We went on a game reserve safari, which turned out to be completely different from the previous ones we had been to. There was a different touch to this one because of the almost "unexplored" territory we drove through, in which the lanes were rather steep, narrow and not man-made. We came across a few impalas, nyalas, mountain zebras and giraffes and although the drive was hard, the overall rythm of the visit was slow as if we were just adapting to the animals' own rythm.
Once the safari was over we briefly stopped at a curio shop close to the restaurant we were going to have lunch at, which provided a wide collection of hand-made Zulu craft, from stone and wood carvings to ostrich eggs and African jewllery.
(To be continued)
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