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Swaziland Highlights

Mbabane-Swaziland
Thulani

Tour Guide, Mbabane, Eswatini

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For the best of Swaziland Highlights, here are some options.

There a full-day tour (no half-day option) since it covers both the north and the southern part of the country hence it requires the whole day. Places of interest visited on the southern part are Swazi candle factory, and Lobamba village (capital legislative area of Swaziland). Here, you can see the houses of parliament, museums, royal residence and the Mantenga cultural village. In the Northern Park, here you can visit the Ngwenya glass factory, and Mbabane (capital city)

Cultural Tour: You will be taken into a half-day cultural tour where you will visit the Lobamba village (the country's capital legislative area that houses the Queen mother's residence). After that, the tour proceeds to the Mantenga cultural village, a recreation of a prosperous traditional Swazi homestead before the colonial era. The village gives a feeling of stepping back in time. The guide gives a crisp, clear explanation of Swazi domestic culture as you walk through the attractive village of elegant grass domed huts and elegant reed screens. Dancing is held twice a day at 11:15 and 3:15 pm. Men perform the vigorous Sibhaca Dance, a test of strength and endurance, and women perform dances from festivals like the Reed Dance ceremony and sing beautifully in harmony. The village is set in an attractive nature reserve with river and extensive birdlife with the Mantenga falls a short walk from the cultural village.

Southern Highlights Tours: This is an interesting half-day tour which covers the following places: Ezulwini craft market, Lobamba village, museum and king Sobhuza Memorial Park. You will then proceed to Swazi candles for more art and craft thereafter you will go to the Mantenga cultural village.

Northern Highlights: On this one, the guide takes you up to the northern part of the country. Attraction points are the capital city (Mbabane), Sibebe rock, Ngwenya glass, Maguga dam, the old Ngwenya iron ore mine, and Nsangwini bushman paintings.

This combines both the south and northern highlights (full day booking is recommended):

Extreme Hikes: The guide will take you either in the Sibebe rock (the second largest granite rock in the whole world) for climbing or to the execution rock found inside the Mlilwane Game Reserve. The guide can also take you up to the Sheba's breast mountain.

Game Viewing: The guide can take you into all the available game reserves in Swaziland either for a game drive or a game walk.

Art and Craft: You can specifically be taken for only art and craft; this is usually a half-day experience.

Guide Hire: With this, one you only hire a guide. There is no standard itinerary since the guide will work according to client instruction, in short, you tell the guide what want to do.