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| "Busker". Photo taken by George and Craig. |
This is one of the world's best beaches.....as long as you are blissfully unaware of it's dangers. Large sharks, high crime and pesky sellers are the order of the day. The Shark's board is presently making changes to Natal's 320 km of shark-nets that were put in place in the fifties and sixties to reduce the effect on other marine animals, while keeping shark numbers down. Experienced divers may be interested in looking at www.sharkbookings.com/dive-packages for some interesting dives.
On the Maharani Hotel end of the Durban hotel strip is a small market where you can pick up beautifully made Zulu beadwork, hand-made leather belts from Mozambique and grass bracelets. "Durbs" has only one thing in common with Jo'burg: Bunnychow. Don't wear large pieces of gold jewellery and do have the courtesy to give a fair tip to anyone who helps park your motor vehicle and offers to watch it for a few hours....this is almost a South African tradition. You can get to the city by taxi , bus or Combi (the Combi taxi's will charge a very small fee and you simply wait until the driver is happy that he has enough fare-paying customers). You must remember though, that Durban has had taxi wars so shootouts are not anything out of the ordinary. Durban has a population of over three million people; many languages are spoken but English will get you around easily. South Africa has seen turbulant times and most Durban residents are cautious but friendly.
