På gång i Mbabane (Swaziland), Eswatini under året

Mycket folk — Incwala ceremony, skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1 okt – 31 mar (vanligtvis)), Incwala ceremony (19 dec – 6 jan)

Mycket folk — Buganu (Marula) Festival, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Buganu (Marula) Festival

  20 feb – 20 mar · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1 okt – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Buganu (Marula) Festival, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i mars.

Pågår fortfarande: Buganu (Marula) Festival (20 feb – 20 mar (vanligtvis)), Thunderstorm and lightning season (1 okt – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Mycket folk — MTN Bushfire festival, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  MTN Bushfire festival

  29–31 majMusikfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Mycket folk — Sibebe Survivor challenge, skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Sibebe Survivor challenge

  24–31 jul · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Umhlanga Reed Dance, Umhlanga, the Reed Dance

• Festival

  Umhlanga Reed Dance

  24–31 augStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Umhlanga, the Reed Dance

  25 aug – 10 sep · vanligtvisNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Umhlanga, the Reed Dance, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Natur

  Malolotja spring wildflowers

  15 sep – 30 nov · vanligtvisVildblommor & blomning

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Umhlanga Reed Dance (24–31 aug), Umhlanga, the Reed Dance (25 aug – 10 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Risk

  Thunderstorm and lightning season

  1 okt – 31 mar · vanligtvisStormsäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Malolotja spring wildflowers (15 sep – 30 nov (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Malolotja spring wildflowers (15 sep – 30 nov (vanligtvis)), Thunderstorm and lightning season (1 okt – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Incwala ceremony, skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Incwala ceremony

  19 dec – 6 janNationell helgdagStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Thunderstorm and lightning season (1 okt – 31 mar (vanligtvis))