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46, Ley Road Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2195, South Africa
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City tour of Johannesburg
... were finally done away with, and interracial marriages were allowed.
We drove through the suburb of Hillbrow, this area has a lot of crime, it is like a ghetto, there are many illegal immigrants in this area and drug dealers from *****ia. Keep in mind all this information is coming from our tour guide, however I can tell you driving through in the middle of the day was quite an experience, many of the apartments have no electricity or water because ...
THE CONCLUSION (FOR NOW ...)
... the plane?
I told him I needed that peanut butter; I might starve to death.
"I'd prefer you to than me." (He claimed he could lose his job if he let it through.)
"That's the problem with Africa," I said.
"Don't you start on Africa ..."
I would leave the security area and put my peanut butter in a bag by itself and check this on the plane.
And then I was gone ...
The end of our year, day 365
... is where we are now
waiting for flight number 48, on the 365th day of our trip.
It feels really strange to be going home....
It has been such an adventure, 21 countries, 110,000 Km 48 flights and we are coming home with 2 empty bags. We left all our worn out clothes in the camp in Kruger, so they will get new owners in Africa.
We're coming home! we're coming home! Wheelers coming home.....
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Jozi, Jo'burg... whatever!
... car and then drive you into the middle of Soweto... you can only assume that the locals here have no pride in where they are from and no desire to change the opinion of outsiders.
The stereotypes are that the blacks are poor and violent, and the whites are rich and scared. The truth is yes, there remains to be some extremely poor parts of South Africa with the obvious ones like the townships of Soweto such as the one that we saw which was just ...
Durban to Johannesburg - Singapore - Goodbye SA
... We had a cup of tea and shared a few tears before heading upstairs to go through security. It wasn't long before we were on the plane and heading to Joburg, red eyed!!
I slept most of the way to Joburg and everything getting off the plane was pretty straight forward. Lindells cousin was meeting us at the airport for a coffee as we could only check in 1 hr after arrived. We met up in an airport café and caught up with the latest happenings.
After an hour ...


