Mattias in Swaziland

From Maputo, I crossed the border into Swaziland and stayed two nights in the Ezulweni valley. It was a quick visit but as the country is quite small, there are not a great deal to see either. Swaziland is good for hiking but I decided that my time was too limited to stay longer and go on hikes.
While in the country, I managed to see the sparesly populated Ezulweni valley (which is where most tourists stay and where most of the action takes place; its large distances though and difficult to get around without a car), Manzini (a market town, also the largest city in the country), Mbabane (the capital, which offers limited amounts of sights for tourists), Piggs Peak (a small town in the mountains in the northern part of the country) and Bulembu (a small village on a detour from P/Peak).
All this I managed to see only using minibus taxis to get around. They are the main form of public transport in the country and are small white 20-seat minibuses (with very tiny leg space) but fortunately they don't pack them as full as the corresponding ones in Mozambique. Minibus taxis are a really cheap way of getting around but one has to ignore all the warning notices in Lonely Planet of not using them if you are not entirely certain of what you are doing and where you are going.

Ezulweni Village









Mountain town of Piggs Peak








Minibus taxi rank in Mbabane








Bulembu village