Last week Tuesday the volunteers enjoyed their first tour, a Lobamba Walking Village Tour. This tour gives the volunteers and introduction to Swaziland – they visit the National Museum and King Sobhuza II Memorial Park, and learn about the history of Swaziland, Its previous King and Swaziland’s people. They then walkt through on of Swaziland’s largest villages, the Lobamba Village to see how the people of Swaziland traditionally live – whilst in the village they get to try our local brew known as umcombotsi as well as visit the village’s local art gallery. The tour ends off with a spectacular traditional Swazi feast, a BRAAII (barbeque).

On Wednesday, the volunteers embarked on a journey to South Africa for the 5 Day Kruger Big Game Camping Safari. During this five day trip, the volunteers were treated to a lot of game sightings – Leopards, Lions, Elephants, Buffalos, Rhinos but the mot special sighting was an albino giraffe because they are so rare to see.. The volunteers especially enjoyed the Sunset Drive as well as the Morning Walk – it gave them such a thrill to be in an open safari vehicle at night with a spot light searching for those eyes that shone through the bush in the night as well as walking out in the open searching for animals with armed park guides!

This weekend the volunteers are going to enjoy the Malolotja Zip Line Adventure tour – viewing many of Swaziland’s highlight destinations as well as partaking in the adrenaline rush of zip lining from mountain to mountain through Malolotja’s gorgeous tree canopy.