OYSTER BOX HOTEL, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA-INSIDE LOOK AT ONE OF AFRICA'S BEST HOTELS (& A SCARY SNAKE!)

Описание: "You'll like the Oyster Box Hotel," my Editor told me before I left. And he was RIGHT! I LOVED the Oyster Box Hotel. It's in a suburb of the seaside city of Durban in South Africa - this is South Africa's third biggest city (after Cape Town and Johannesburg). Durban is in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal and is a melting-pot of cultures - it's where the Zulu people live as well as a lot of Indian people - Durban has the biggest concentration of Indians outside of India. As such the beachside Oyster Box hotel serves a nightly 'curry buffet' - featured in this video. It is SENSATIONAL. This video offers an inside look at the Oyster Box which is really one of Africa's best hotels. You will see its swimming pools, gardens, rooms, restaurants and food - I sample the curry buffet as well as the hotel's amazing daily high tea. I look at a basic room (still beautiful) as well as the duplex villa I stayed. I also take a walk along the 2-mile seaside promenade which skirts the Indian Ocean and can be accessed via a gate in the hotel. The hotel is in a suburb of Durban called Umhlanga Rocks which has a famous and very striking red and white lighthouse. The promenade passes by this lighthouse and the hotel has a cocktail named after it (which of course I have to sample!) called an Umhlanga Sling. The video also goes outside of Umhlanga to visit Durban's Victoria Street Market as well as a cultural Zulu village called Phezulu (about half an hour from Durban) where you can see how the Zulu people used to live - I help out in their kitchen hut as well as to try to dance their tribal dance with them to the beat of drums. If you like cats, you're in luck. This video features footage of the gorgeous hotel cat. If you like snakes you're also in lucky. This video sees me trying to conquer my fear and have a python snake put around my neck! If you're not a snake lover you might want to close your eyes! What's for sure is that Durban and Kwa-Zulu Natal offers lots of GREAT adventure.