Day 6:
With the
end of a relaxed morning at the pool in Nelspruit we look for things to do
around: My dad suggested going to visit some gold mines, but after seeing how
they ignored our phone calls (and how my mum didn't really agree) we ended up
visiting the Sudwala caves, which where only an hour drive away. |
| The cave at the end of the tours |
The caves
were a very old formation where the old Swahili people used to live in, we saw
stalagmites, stalactites and flowstone formations, which are hollow and where
used by the Swahili as alarm system. The tour ended at a little cave 80 metres
below the surface and was only accessible through a 0.5 metre high and 40
metres long access cave, but it was absolutely worth it, the cave was lit up with various colours and was the start of a longer tour (which only happens on Sundays) that lasts 5 hours and goes all the way into the deeper caves that have no lights at all.
Afterwards
we went to visit a sort of dinosaur museum, which Sofie obviously loved. For
dinner we checked out a suggestion of the guest house, it was supposed to be a
local restaurant but we ended up being a little bit disappointed, because on
the menu we mainly saw steaks and chicken (not that I'm complaining, the steak was lovely).
To start of
the 7th day I have to mention that we had a special breakfast: eggs,
but instead of sunny side u or a regular scrambled egg, it was served in a wrap
with some vegetables and some bacon. Once finished the extensive breakfast we
left heading to Swaziland.
After a long drive we got at the border controls, which were especially annoying at the South African part of the border, but once we got to
our lodge in Mbabane we thought it was worth the wait: The rooms had a
beautiful sight over the river that was coming down.
After lunch we decided to go
for a hike upwards the river, we had a stunning view over the valley and my dad
was feeling extra adventurous, so he decided to climb up a little mountain that
there was next to the top of the river.
Now the lodge was amazing but it felt a little awkward to be there, we got told that they were short on staff, and later on we even heard that the dinner room was full (luckily we had already booked) I have to add that the full dinner room meant 7 persons. The dinner we had was nice but we all agreed that it would be a shame to spend Christmas eve here, even more after we heard that there would be no service at all during Christmas eve nor Christmas day.
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| View from the top of the little mountain |
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