Around the World with Don and Ann: Valley of a Thousand Hills, Durban, South Africa

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Valley of a Thousand Hills, Durban, South Africa

Breathtaking day exploring local countryside and Zulu culture.

Surprise of the day was meeting our new fellow passenger, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu! He is gracious and very friendly. Ann said, “Welcome aboard” to him and he answered,

“God Bless you”. Later Don asked him if he could take his picture

     and he said why don’t we have my son take a picture of both of us.
    We look forward to hearing more from him over the next three days
      while he is sailing with us to Cape Town, South Africa.

We have met so many interesting people on this voyage, both passengers and people from local cultures, truly one of the enriching aspects of this trip. We are so grateful.

1 comment:

UnknownMarch 30, 2014 at 9:31 AM
These pictures are amazing and I am loving it. What a trip. And how cool that Mr Tutu joined your boat. Did you know that was happening?
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We are Don and Ann Barnes. We have had many travel experiences over the years, mostly for work. We are first timers going around-the-world hoping to test out Magellan’s theory. In the past several years we have had close calls with multiple cancers, car accidents, and the likes. These experiences along with Ann’s father’s mantra, “We have never regretted the things we have experienced, only those that we didn’t”, have all brought us to this point in our lives. It is a good time to just do it.