We started Friday morning with a Staff Retreat at in Karkloof, at a small game reserve. We played some games, had some amazing devotions and worship, both in English and Zulu. It was just a lovely morning of spending time with all the incredible people from Ethembeni outside our normal working environment. After lunch at the retreat the team left and headed over towards Winterton in the Drankensberg. It took us about an hour and a half to two hours to get there. We weren't really sure what to expect about our accommodation... We had ben told to expect a Zulu experience, but I don't think any of us were w your thinking of rural Zulu! We were staying in two traditional, rural, Zulu beehives huts. We slept on the floor, ate around a single candle flame as there was no electricity and actually had a really amazing time!
We left early on Saturday and drove to the Royal Natal National Park (which took us about two hours). Because it took us so long to arrive, we weren't able to complete the walk that we had all been so excited to do! Tugela Waterfall is the second highest waterfall in the world!! We had been told told by the guide that it should be around a 6 hour hike to walk the 14 km there and back, but we quickly discovered that it was a 9 hour hike. Instead of managing to walk all the way to the base of the falls like we had wanted, we waked all the up the gorge and river that flowed from Tugela and turned around at the chain ladder we had to climb to continue. Although we didn't get all the way to the waterfall, we spent all day walking in the most beautiful scenery with the mountains all around us!
On Sunday we packed up and left early and drive towards the Heritage Site for the Drankensberg. We spent the morning there, ate lunch and then started the journey back to Howick. We managed to fit in time to dump our bags and freshen up at home before we headed down to HCC for the evening service.
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