Durban, South Africa - Day one

Durban, South Africa, is a beautiful beach town. We travelled into South Africa literally the whole day yesterday.

We left Nairobi's JKIA at 3.30am, yes, a very early Thursday morning. Reason being we had booked Ethiopian Airlines, and it has direct flights into South Africa, but from Addis Ababa. The 3.30am flight was to Addis Ababa, two hours away, from where the 5hour non stop flight to Johannesburg, departed at 8.30am.

I have to say that it was the longest flight I've ever been in. We arrived in Johannesburg at 2.20pm (1.20pm South African time). We had to wait for our last flight for the day which was departing at South African time, 3.30pm, for the southern coastal town of Durban.

Durban is a beautiful town, lovely roads, clean environment, not anything close to Nairobi, in all honesty. The airport, King Shaka international airport is 34km from Durban CBD, and that gave us ample time to sample the outskirts of Durban.

Come Friday morning, we had to "hit the streets", literally. Site seeing was pretty much the order of the day. We first went to the Durban Holocaust Centre, from where I really learnt about the true reason as to why Adolf Hitler turned the Nazi against the Jews. It was pretty sad, reading about it, seeing the photos and videos too. Almost two million Jews were massacred in Europe during Hitler's tenure as Germany's Chancellor.

After that, we took a stroll into town, with our main intention was to see the Durban National Science Museum. Unluckily for us, we did manage to locate the museum, but they had already closed for the day.

So that gave us an opportunity to go site seeing in the city. Something which stood out was the fact that as much as South Africa overcame the apartheid 'error', (even the cab driver who picked us from the airport was white), we never at any one time came across a mixed couple. The more reason everywhere we went, my girlfriend and I were getting some sort of weird looks. Again, no one could easily tell that we were foreigners for the simple reason that South Arica has both whites and blacks as natives. The only thing that has been giving us away clearly is our distinct accent :)