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SamangoAt the start of my recent vacation in KwaZulu Natal, we stayed in the Oyster Box Hotel in Umhlanga, near Durban, before journeying on to Thonga Beach Lodge on the north-east coast of KZN overlooking the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, within an hour of arrival I was taken viollently ill with food poisoning, almost certainly from eating a tainted oyster at the aforementioned hotel. As a result I was more or less confined to our forest chalet for 3 days, although latterly I ventured down to the beach and managed some minor activities. The Lodge is built into a coastal forest that grows along the dunes abutting the ocean and might to some people be their idea of what an African jungle might look like. Apart from paths that have been hard won through the undergrowth the forest is impenetrable to humans with trees, bushes and scrub of all descriptions, overwhelming numbers of buzzing, crawling, flying and possibly stinging insects, and the odd snake of of potential lethality. On my last

Description
SamangoAt the start of my recent vacation in KwaZulu Natal, we stayed in the Oyster Box Hotel in Umhlanga, near Durban, before journeying on to Thonga Beach Lodge on the north-east coast of KZN overlooking the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, within an hour of arrival I was taken viollently ill with food poisoning, almost certainly from eating a tainted oyster at the aforementioned hotel. As a result I was more or less confined to our forest chalet for 3 days, although latterly I ventured down to the beach and managed some minor activities. The Lodge is built into a coastal forest that grows along the dunes abutting the ocean and might to some people be their idea of what an African jungle might look like. Apart from paths that have been hard won through the undergrowth the forest is impenetrable to humans with trees, bushes and scrub of all descriptions, overwhelming numbers of buzzing, crawling, flying and possibly stinging insects, and the odd snake of of potential lethality. On my last