Durban South Africa, November 2005

November 2005 I was able to travel to Durban, South Africa. I attended the World Conference on Physics in Sustainable Development. Honestly, the conference was not greatly useful, and Durban was dangerous, but the natural environment in South Africa was wonderful!

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The night of arrival I looked, and found a great Indian restaurant. Here is a view from the patio overlooking the Indian Ocean:

After arriving The first day, I took a tour to the d Game Reserve (to help get over the jet-lag {;o}. My favorite were all the white-rhinos.

Lots of baboons:

Buffalo

A crocodile

Impala (not Chevy's)

A bird that looked like a pea-hen

A snake that our guide promised  was poisonous. How would we know?

And finally Zebras!

Below are three movies that you can down load to view. The third one is the smallest and the best as it show us driving up on some Rhinos in the road.

Hluhluwe1, 10.3 MBytes ASF File
Hluhluwe2, 20.9 MBytes ASF File
Hluhluwe3, 7.3 MBytes ASF File

The next day the conference started:

The plenary sessions were interesting.

After the conference, I rented a car and got out of Durban. First I went out to the beautiful national park, uKhalambda-Drakensberg at the Giant's Castle. when I got there I went to the pre-historic bushman rock-art museum.

Below is a great movie that you can down load to view. This is my Zulu guide at the museum demonstrating the "clicking" language of the bushmen.

Clicking, 18.9 MBytes ASF File

Then I went hiking up to the Giant's Castle. What a beautiful hike!

And here is the castle.

Here is the neighborhood. the Zulu had an interesting round building with a thatched roof.

Finally on my last full day I went south along the Indian ocean to visit the small towns. This also was a nice change from Durban and much more friendly.

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