That said, the people of Swaziland were very friendly and quite cheerful at all the places we visited during our quick three day stay in the country. We had heard about this good backpackers called Lidwala in Ezulwini and so we got ourselves a private room (we earned it after 7 nights of camping). On our first full day in Swaziland we drove to the Mlilwane Game Sanctuary to hike up to a place called Execution Rock. As you can probably imagine the rock gets its name from a time when people who were believed to be witches were thrown off the rock for practicing witchcraft. The hike took about 4 hours round trip and over the course of the hike we could spot impala, wildebeest, zebra and other furry African creatures.
Before we left Swaziland we decided to do a shorter hike right behind our backpackers known as Sheba’s Breast. This time we had company. The owners little dog, a Jack Russell whose name we didn’t know, came along for the hike. The hike was pretty steep up the entire way and in a couple of sections ladders were affixed to the trail so that hikers could easily navigate the terrain. Dogs don’t do ladders so well so we had to carry our little friend up and down the ladders but he did make it the whole way up with us. On our way out of Ezulwini we garbbed a couple newspapers for starting camp fires and quickly noticed that excessive nudity is common place in them. Swaziland has newsprint figured out! Canada needs to get its act together!