June 14, 2010 - Durban

Today we slept in seeing we didn't have anything to get up at 6am for.  :-)  We woke up around 10am and hopped a taxi into Durban.  Our hotel (Cowrie Cove, pics here) is south of the airport, but north of Durban in Umhlanga Rocks (pronounced Um-schlanga i found out).  We took the R200 taxi ride into town and had lunch at a place called Moyo inside uShaka Marine World - a water park, aquarium, shopping center, etc all in one and on the waterfront just south/east of downtown Durban.  Sarah had a clay pot of rice with other veggie junk, I had the grilled prawns (prawns seem to be a South African thing as they are served everywhere - District 9 reference?).

After lunch we walked up the beach to the FIFA fan fest.  There we watched Japan defeat Cameroon, was neat seeing all the different fans watching on the big screen at the beach.  Then we wandered through some shops and called our taxi driver to come pick us up again.  For dinner we again ordered out from the same place (but had a feta/avocado/ham pizza and a chicken/mushroom sub) and watched Italy-Paraguay to a 1-1 draw.
Pics from today are here