Swaziland has a fairly transient expat community …. There seems to be a leaving event of some sort about every other week, so instead of doing the normal braai at someone house, Allie (who is also leaving) and I decided we would move the braai to a remote corner of Swaziland.
We had a fantastic weekend, starting off with helping with Teen Club Christmas party (a youth group for HIV Positive teens). I volunteered for face painting and became quite adept at drawing snowmen and Christmas trees … but struggles a bit more when there was a craze for South African flags … I’m sure it is one of the most complicated … why does any flag need five colours!
We then headed out into the country side to say at a place called the Rock Lodge, the clue is in the name and it is a fairly basic place built around a rock formation and perched on the edge of a cliff. An amazing location, once you find it, which we were a bit uncertain about when we were given a hand drawn map to help us get there, with useful instructions such as, take the second track on the left after the concrete posts and then follow the road until you reach the last homestead…. What could possibly go wrong?! Amazingly we made it without getting too lost. And had a fun braai in the evening and a walk down to the river in the morning. I hope the photos give a bit of a flavor of what it was like.
A room with a view!
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