faster and faster. It was great fun and what a place to do quad biking for the first time. Most of the people and kids we passed had big smiles and waving arms as we whizzed past them trying the best we could to wave back. After the shop we went a little more off road and had to go through a river. We all waited our turn and I was loving it by this point, I went as fast as I could down the hill, lifted my legs and whizzed through the river and up the other side, then watched as Rob and Mike did it all a bit more daredevil stylee! Rob and Mike went back through so I could get some photos of them.

After this we carried on until we arrived at the first of the homestead visits. We would stay here for lunch but before that we were taken by one of the little local boys to the waterfall. We tried our best to chat to him but he was very shy but we did manage to find out that he was 8 and that he liked

football and went to school. The waterfall was lovely but it was definitely too cold for swimming so we headed back up to the homestead. We chatted to the lady who’s homestead it was and she explained their way of life. The houses were very much like those we had seen in Bolivian and parts of rural Peru. They were small one roomed affairs with mud floors. There was a separate building for the kitchen which had an area for a fire for cooking.

Eileen the lady explained how they would not have enough of her food for the winter, which meant that she would have to buy supplies in. Apparently there hadn’t been enough rain therefore she’d had a poorer crop than normal. The staple diet was corn based and this is what Eileen grew most of. She had a few chickens and goats and was the second wife of her husband hence him not being around. Swaziland culture is very different from our own and men are