South Africa Adventure: Swaziland 23 -24 March

We left early on March 23rd in heavy rain for Swaziland. It had been raining there so our visit to the Mantenga Swazi Cultural Village was done with umbrellas. We enjoyed the dancing before we visited the village. After a peanut butter sandwich lunch we did a little shopping on our way to Mlilwane Wildlife Park.
As we turned off a main road to the park we were flagged down. Here you never know the reason someone is flagging you down, so we started to keep going when we saw the dirt road was a mess! We backed up and asked the man and he told us the road was closed and we needed to call the park to be picked up by them and for a place to park the van. We found our phone doesn't work in Swaziland so we asked Humphry if he could call for us. He did and it was arranged for him to go with us to the police station to leave our car and be picked up by 4 wheel drive safari vehicles to be driven to the park. We weren't the only ones waiting for pickup! Dave & James were in the last group and got to the housing area at 5:50 pm after nearly 3 hours from arriving at the police station. We were told we didn't have to pay for both nights, but the next morning we awoke to beautiful blue skies and sunshine. While hiking around was muddy it was lovely.