Dirty Durban Diary

Are you looking for some place with a good clima through the hole year? Some place were it's warm and sunny? So, good news I found it for you. Durban is situated next to the Indian Ocean and with it's 5 km sandy beach it's a good place to swim in some warm water. (The more south you go, the colder the water gets. In Capetown the people usually don't swim in the ocean even in summer...!) The beach walk starts at Ushaka Marine World and takes you to the Moses Mabhida Stadium (the soccer stadium they built for the World Cup). It's a popular promenade for riding bikes, rollerblades or for some jogging. There are small shops and restaurants and one casino next to the way.

 For dinner I would recomend you the Moyo next to Ushaka Marine World. http://www.moyo.co.za/restaurant-moyo-ushaka/map.aspx 

Durban's skyline

They serve very good food, the staff is very friendly and they do have some live music from time to time. It's a south african restaurant chain they call themselves to have a modern sophisticated african cuisine. The restaurant is "upstairs" and the beach bar is "downstairs". This calm place turns into a vibrating club as soon the band starts to play. As the bar was empty I took a chance and talked to the barkeeper about politics, the future and our favourite european soccer teams.

For the World Cup they expanded into the ocean. They built a second bar on the pier next to the restaurant. I think they name it Moyo Pier. I didn't check it out. 

the skycar takes you up for R55

My backpacker was just around the corner of all these places. The Happy Hippo Backpacker is a quite big but very clean hostel. From the roof top bar you can't see the ocean ;-) but you have a great overview over the southend of the city. The doorman comes from the north of Kwa-Zulu-Natal were he escaped from a cheetah one morning.Crazy story