So this weekend after a fun night out with dorm friends i went to Durban with two study abroad students from California. We left Saturday afternoon on our Kombi adventure (i still have to take a picture of them for you) crammed in and took the hour drive to Durban for a Rugby game.
When we got there we walked around to find the stadium, which coincidentally is next to the new World Cup Stadium which you can see from all over the city. We got there just as the game was starting, bought tickets and went in to see South Africa play New Zealand. Unfortunately we lost 10-13, but let me tell you it is way more exciting that football, and a lot quicker. They rarely stop the play so the whole game was over in under 2 hours and they do crazy plays where they left people up cheerleader style. The whole atmosphere of the game was really fun, friendly people. Afterwards in the parking lot it seemed like a fair. Loud music and huts that sold food.
People barbequeing outside of their cars and tailgating. It was a party. We hung around for a while and then went off to a famous road called Florida road.
Florida road is a road that has tons of restaurants and clubs on it and we heard really good things about this restaurant called Taco Zulu. Funny thing is that there is no Mexican food in south Africa, so being Americans, we were all about the Mexican food. After going into a burrito coma we walked around, but realized we were under dressed to go into any of the clubs. Damn no sandals rule! oh well.
We took a cab back to our hostel (sweet hostel by the way) called the Happy Hippo and were asleep before midnight.
The next day was so much fun. We went to this place called UShaka Marine World which is a combination of a wet n' wild water park, sea world, aquarium, shopping mall, beach and surf zone. We walked through the mall and then went to the water park. The water park was actually really sweet but all normal water rules were broken. You could go down any of the slides head first and ten at a time. Things were a little crazy. Coming from a lifeguard i was a little overwhelmed by all the rules being broken but it was so much fun. There was the tallest w
aterslide in Africa (i guess not very hard to do) which went straight down and gave you the BIGGEST wedgie of your life. There were tube racing slides and then big raft rides. There was even a sweet lazy river that passed you by the aquarium where you could see the sharks and passed Shamu's tank. It was pretty cool. After lunch on the beach listening to a rastafarian band (think Bob Marley zulu style) we jumped some waves and rented sea kayaks. We sea kayaked for a while and saw some pretty fish. The water was so warm it was awesome. I am going to go back for sure for surfing, but all of the boards were booked for the day.
After a few more waterslides we came to reality as the park was closing and we realized we had a 2 hour kombi adventure back to Pietermaritzburg. Everyday seems like a vacation. Coming back to reality is gong to be rough.
When we got there we walked around to find the stadium, which coincidentally is next to the new World Cup Stadium which you can see from all over the city. We got there just as the game was starting, bought tickets and went in to see South Africa play New Zealand. Unfortunately we lost 10-13, but let me tell you it is way more exciting that football, and a lot quicker. They rarely stop the play so the whole game was over in under 2 hours and they do crazy plays where they left people up cheerleader style. The whole atmosphere of the game was really fun, friendly people. Afterwards in the parking lot it seemed like a fair. Loud music and huts that sold food.
People barbequeing outside of their cars and tailgating. It was a party. We hung around for a while and then went off to a famous road called Florida road.Florida road is a road that has tons of restaurants and clubs on it and we heard really good things about this restaurant called Taco Zulu. Funny thing is that there is no Mexican food in south Africa, so being Americans, we were all about the Mexican food. After going into a burrito coma we walked around, but realized we were under dressed to go into any of the clubs. Damn no sandals rule! oh well.
We took a cab back to our hostel (sweet hostel by the way) called the Happy Hippo and were asleep before midnight.
The next day was so much fun. We went to this place called UShaka Marine World which is a combination of a wet n' wild water park, sea world, aquarium, shopping mall, beach and surf zone. We walked through the mall and then went to the water park. The water park was actually really sweet but all normal water rules were broken. You could go down any of the slides head first and ten at a time. Things were a little crazy. Coming from a lifeguard i was a little overwhelmed by all the rules being broken but it was so much fun. There was the tallest w
aterslide in Africa (i guess not very hard to do) which went straight down and gave you the BIGGEST wedgie of your life. There were tube racing slides and then big raft rides. There was even a sweet lazy river that passed you by the aquarium where you could see the sharks and passed Shamu's tank. It was pretty cool. After lunch on the beach listening to a rastafarian band (think Bob Marley zulu style) we jumped some waves and rented sea kayaks. We sea kayaked for a while and saw some pretty fish. The water was so warm it was awesome. I am going to go back for sure for surfing, but all of the boards were booked for the day.After a few more waterslides we came to reality as the park was closing and we realized we had a 2 hour kombi adventure back to Pietermaritzburg. Everyday seems like a vacation. Coming back to reality is gong to be rough.
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