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Mantenga Experience
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  • By junecorlett on June 17, 2009
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  • Mantenga Cultural Village - Swaziland
    Mantenga Cultural Village
    by junecorlett
    Visit the Mantenga Craft Centre with its fascinating shops that offer a wide variety of local art and craft items, or books for an adventure adrenalin sport or a safari at Swazi Trails. There is a tourism information office in the centre and nearby is Backpacker Lodge, a popular stopover with the young.
    Within the Mantenga Nature Reserve is the Cultural Village, which is operated by the Swziland National Trust Commission, and where visitors may learn about the day-to-day life in a traditional Swazi homestead and enjoy vibrant dance shows. There is also tented accomodation, restaurants and of course the breathtaking Mantenga Falls.

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  • Directions: Mililwane
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    Execution Rock
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  • By junecorlett on June 17, 2009
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  • Execution Rock with Sheba's Breasts - Swaziland
    Execution Rock with Sheba's
    Breasts
    by junecorlett, 1 more photos
    Execution Rock is another unique rock that overlooks the Ezulwini Valley.
    The rock derives its name from the custom of a century ago, when wrongdoers accused of crimes such as witchcraft and murder were made to walk to the summit and plunge to their deaths (How awful) But I suppose it fits the crime.
    This venture inevitably required some assistance from the Swazi warriors on the ascent and, understandably, a prod from a spear to fascilitate the downward journey.
    Happliy, this custom was done away with some time ago.

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  • Address: Ezulwini Valley
  • Directions: Behind the Gables Shopping Centre
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    Summerfield Botanical Gardens
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  • By junecorlett on June 18, 2009
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  • Cycads - Swaziland
    Cycads
    by junecorlett, 1 more photos
    Unfortunately the Main Lodge was closed on the day we visited, but I managed to take some photographs.
    It is worth a visit even when the shops are shut.
    Plenty of Mango trees and cycads.
    The restaurant has a beautiful setting over a lake.

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  • Address: Summerfield
  • Phone: +268 550 3539
  • Website: www.summerfieldresort.com
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    Beehives, traditional huts
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  • Updated By sachara on September 3, 2003
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  • beehives - Swaziland
    beehives
    by sachara
    In Swaziland you have nice beehives, the traditional Zulu-huts. These huts are plaited of grass and look really beautiful with their round forms and low entrances.
    It's possible to sleep in these huts, like we did in the Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary. From our beehive we had a marvellous view at a plain where we saw nyalas and impalas. What could we wish more ....

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    Manzini, markettown
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  • Updated By sachara on September 4, 2003
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  • Manzini - Swaziland
    Manzini
    by sachara
    Manzini is the industrial centre of Swaziland.
    Manzini isn't large. The centre is a bit less easygoing than the rural part of Swaziland, but still is not very busy.
    We visited the friday morning market. At that timer there are many cars, buses and pickups in town.
    People from the rural areas come to Manzini at market days to sell their handicrafts.
    We bought some local made utensiles for the kitchen at the market.
    In a large supermarket we did the shopping for the day.

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  • Directions: South-east of Mbabane, near the airport.
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    Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary
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  • By sachara on September 3, 2003
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  • Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary - Swaziland
    Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary
    by sachara
    The Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary is a nice private reserve. The reserve has several trails, where you can walk or cycle. The reserve has a nice scenery with a river and a lake. Animals to be seen in the reserve are antelopes, giraffes, zebras, crocodiles and hippos.
    You can stay overnight in the reserve. We stayed in the lovely beehives in the Beehive Village.

    Picture: look at the hippo mother with kid.

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  • Directions: 6KM west of Mbabane
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    Manzini market
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  • Updated By sachara on September 4, 2003
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  • making colourful shopping baskets - Swaziland
    making colourful shopping
    baskets
    by sachara
    The market of Manzini is very colourful.
    There are not many tourists around. And the products are made for the local people.
    I bought a large wooden scale, in Swaziland used for meat, in our house for fruits and nuts, and a primitive funny mixer of wood.
    The vendors were very friendly and helpful.
    The women, who plaited the colourful shopping baskets, liked to explain us their work.

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    Ngwenya Glass Factory
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  • By wadekorzan on January 12, 2004
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  • This place was simply amazing. Used glass is collected from all over the country and is used here to make all kinds of incredible glass products. We got stuck here for about 2 hours because we just could not leave (we liked it so much). The selection is incredible and we did, in fact, buy quite a few little hand blown glass animals like rhinos, etc, which make great, typical gifts from Swaziland. There's also a cafe here where you can just sit and have snack, a meal, or a drink. The glass factory os located right along the road when you enter Swaziland from the west in Oshoek.

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    White water rafting
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  • River rafting - Swaziland
    River rafting
    by wadekorzan
    One of the best places for white water rafting is the Usutu River, and it is a major highlight of Swaziland. The rapids are Class IV, so not that calm...but alot of fun. Most of the river is calm, but the area where you do the rafting is in a gorge between the Mabukabuka and Bulunga Mountains, so it is swift and scenic. If you do the whole day excursion there you'll also get to pass through some calmer areas where you can see alot of crocodiles.

    Contact Swazi Trails for more info.

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  • Phone: 416 2180
  • Other Contact: swazitrails@realnet.co.sz
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    Traditional goods
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  • Updated By sachara on September 4, 2003
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  • Manzini market - Swaziland
    Manzini market
    by sachara
    At the market we saw a lot of curious things like skins as loin cloth.
    We also smell and saw peculiar herbs, roots and bark.
    A woman tried to explain me the meaning of the goods, while her husband was trying and choosing his small new loin cloth of skin.

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