Durban is South Africa’s second largest city and is located on SA’s east coast approximately xxx miles southeast of Johannesburg. Our tour put us in the xxxxxxxx, a beachfront hotel although our program didn’t provide any time for us to hit the surf. Our first day city tour took us to the state capital and the xxxxxxxx monument.

     We stayed together during a long walking tour of the Durban Botanical Gardens and did a “look-but-no-buy” brief shopping visit within the Indian Quarter. A crowd in the city’s downtown park got us curious but not too close – it was a magician doing hand tricks! Just as well for we’d been forewarned about the pickpockets working crowds like this one.

     The bottom four photos are a hodgepodge: the John Marshall residence and museum (He was a former xxxxxxxxxxx) gave us an insight into 1900-1930 life in Durban; the view of the amusement area from our ocean front hotel rooms gave us a contemporary view of Durban life.

     Several members of our group were heading home the next day from Durban and at our initial “Farewell Cocktail Party” they were serenaded by the Claassens and the Evans, our in house choral group. Everyone did their own thing for dinner and the Daukases and the Kestens joined Jo and I for “Dinner in Durban.”