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26/1/2011
I collected my rafting CD and waited for the Aussies boys (as they were giving me a lift) watching NatGeo Wild.
Waited two hours but they did turn up! We had a quick trip to pick 'n' Pay where Timmy got three huge different cake slices for £2. They looked awesome. I used the remainder of my Swazi currency (which is exactly the same rate to the pound as the rand and the accept the rand there anyway) on a couple of tiny chocolate bars.
We raced off down the country and crossed the border in just a couple of hours, seeing giraffe on the roadside as soon as we hit SA. The boys dropped me off in Hluhuhwe where they went shopping and I bought two monster chocolate-covered cream éclairs with a cherry on top for a massive 40p….
That went down beautifully with the chicken and mushroom pie and a litre sachet of full-fat milk!
Munching my way through it on an empty bus to Mtubatuba, it was the best journey ever. So much room! The next minibus taxi though to St Lucia was rammed and I had a drunk local who had just finished his work, chatting rubbish to me the whole way. Still, he was nice just hammered. I arrived in St Lucia having cost me a fiver all the way from Swaziland which was a bargain and went to Bibs backpackers where I expected to see Mike, but he wasn't there. So I went to Budget backpackers where the idiot was but forgot to tell me.The name Budget doesn't really sell but it was a decent backpackers offering reasonable price, nice-ish beds and a free night drive to look for the hippos and other animals which actually walk the streets of the town at night because of all the swamp and water nearby. On my free one all I saw was a chameleon they spotted and brought down from the trees, some bushbabies in the dark in the distance and some birds! No hippos today! I spotted something else as well but it ran off.
Speaking to Mike, he had been drunk the night before and stoning it up with some random South African who turned out to be gay! He showed Mike his gun in his car (no pun as it really was a gun - apparently haha) and they saw hippos and a massive python that had just eaten something taking up the width of the road!
Jack was staying with Hannah for a final night and decided he was going to hit Durban in the morning as I wanted to spend a day in St Lucia. Mike and I chatted to two Dutch girls who we then went for a few drinks with and played lots of pool and darts. Before bed we had a game of their little game, Worms. They're like dice and making numbers, too difficult and dull to explain but I won!
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