After Mozambique, we crossed over a rather quiet border to the Kingdom of Swaziland. The change was immeadiately apparent, as Mozambique is extremely poor, and Swaziland appears to be more like its neighbour, South Africa. The topography also changed to green, mountainous, and very beautiful.
We staying inside Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary that, while not home to the big five, held some wonderful viewing surprises. Many of the grazing animals would wander right into our camp, especially at night. The logo for Milwane is a warthog, and we saw lots of those. Many of the warthogs had just had babies, so they were wandering around with mommy warthog. Many of the antelope in the Park had also just given birth, so lots of aaahhhh moments.
When we were not outside seeing the scenery (which was fantastic!) or doing game drives, we sat in this fabulous bar overlooking a watering hole. There was some real action one day, with a croc attacking who knows what accross the way as we sipped drinks (actually we were too riveted to sip).
The other highlight was what must have been our best and most interesting accomodation on the trip - beehive huts. One hut for two people, real cute on the outside, and absolutely huge inside. And yes, each one had a private bathroom.
We also went to a Swazi village to visit. Unusual for the area, the village chief was a woman, and what a character she was! We learned about their traditional ways of life, then the women and men in our group took turns making fools of ourselves, singing in the Swazi language, and dancing traditional steps. I can honestly say the we men were even worse than the women, but it sure was fun, and we laughed a lot.
We must say that we were totally charmed by Swaziland, and would strongly recommend it as a stop when visiting this part of the world.
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