Swaziland

The official kingdom of Swaziland welcomed us on our first night with sand in the face. That´s right, the traditional dancers kick up sand with their legs well above their heads during their ritual dancing, which was actually quite memorable.
During our short visit there, we went white water rafting in the Great Usuthu River, getting violently thrown around many rapids, and Brent still has the bruises to prove it! We went bicycling around the hills and plains to various museums and cultural villages, soaking the cultural experience of this society so distant from our own cultures.
We even soaked ourselves in hot springs at the end of a long, hot day spent trekking the mountains up to execution rock!
Luckily they spoke a very similar language to what we spoke in Zululand, so getting about was easier than we imagined in the land of King Mswati III.