Hva som skjer i Mbabane (Swaziland), Eswatini gjennom året

Travelt — Incwala ceremony, skoleferie i 5 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1. okt – 31. mar (vanligvis)), Incwala ceremony (19. des – 6. jan)

Travelt — Buganu (Marula) Festival, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Buganu (Marula) Festival

  20. feb – 20. mar · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Women bring fermented marula brew to the King in two royal ceremonies, first at Ebuhleni in the north of the Hhohho region and about two weeks later at Hlane in the east, with singing, dancing and a lot of buganu drunk. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1. okt – 31. mar (vanligvis))

Travelt — Buganu (Marula) Festival, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i mars.

Fortsatt på gang: Buganu (Marula) Festival (20. feb – 20. mar (vanligvis)), Thunderstorm and lightning season (1. okt – 31. mar (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Travelt — MTN Bushfire festival, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  MTN Bushfire festival

  29.–31. maiMusikkfestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  Southern Africa's best-known arts and music weekend runs at House on Fire in the Malkerns Valley, a short drive south of Mbabane, drawing up to 20,000 people over three days. It is the one weekend hotel rooms across the capital and the Ezulwini valley are hardest to find. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i juni.

Travelt — Sibebe Survivor challenge, skoleferie i 5 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Sibebe Survivor challenge

  24.–31. jul · vanligvisSportsarrangementMye folk

  Thousands walk the 10 km charity hike up Sibebe Rock, a huge granite dome just outside Mbabane, on the last Sunday in July. Families, company teams and visitors all join; registration closes a couple of weeks before. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Umhlanga Reed Dance, Umhlanga, the Reed Dance

• Festival

  Umhlanga Reed Dance

  24.–31. augStor festivalMye folk

  Up to 40,000 unmarried women converge on the Ludzidzini royal village near Lobamba, a short drive from Mbabane, for an eight-day ceremony ending on the public-holiday main day. Roads into the Ezulwini valley are congested and the capital's hotels fill around it. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Umhlanga, the Reed Dance

  25. aug – 10. sep · vanligvisNasjonaldagMye folkStengninger

  Tens of thousands of young women bring reeds to the Queen Mother's royal village over about a week, ending in massed singing and dancing before the King that visitors may watch. The final day is a public holiday, and lodges in the central valleys book up. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Umhlanga, the Reed Dance, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Natur

  Malolotja spring wildflowers

  15. sep – 30. nov · vanligvisVillblomster og blomstring

  The grasslands of Malolotja Nature Reserve, a short drive north-west of Mbabane, flower after the first spring rains, with lilies, orchids and red-hot pokers along the hiking trails, usually best in October and November. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Umhlanga Reed Dance (24.–31. aug), Umhlanga, the Reed Dance (25. aug – 10. sep (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Fare

  Thunderstorm and lightning season

  1. okt – 31. mar · vanligvisStormsesong

  Afternoon thunderstorms over the highveld are frequent in summer, and Eswatini has recorded one of the highest lightning death rates anywhere. Plan hikes on Sibebe and in Malolotja for the morning. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Malolotja spring wildflowers (15. sep – 30. nov (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i november.

Fortsatt på gang: Malolotja spring wildflowers (15. sep – 30. nov (vanligvis)), Thunderstorm and lightning season (1. okt – 31. mar (vanligvis))

Travelt — Incwala ceremony, skoleferie i 5 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Incwala ceremony

  19. des – 6. janNasjonaldagStengninger

  Eswatini's most sacred ritual, timed by the moon rather than the calendar, runs from the Little Incwala shortly before Christmas to the King's first-fruits ceremony in early January, a gazetted public holiday. Government offices and many shops in Mbabane close, and the exact dates are only confirmed close to the event. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1. okt – 31. mar (vanligvis))