Friday 29th We sat in the airport in Abu Dhabi for absolutely hours only to find that our 13.35pm flight was then delayed by another 2 hours so we only left at 15.30, but the flight was very empty and I managed to find myself some free seats and made a lovely bed and slept most of the way. Poor Kev was stuck in 2 chairs but tried his best to sle...

When I landed in Jo'burg it was already getting dark. It was after a leg-numbing 12+ hour flight. I can't even count the number of hours I spend either waiting for a plane, on the plane and waiting for other people to get on the plane anymore. It was just an incredibly body-aching journey that I was glad was finally over. So as I left the termin...

So here I am in sunny Johannesburg getting ready to leave tomorrow for Hong Kong and the next adventure! To tell the truth I was unsure of South Africa as a destination to start off with, but I have really enjoyed every minute and would love to come back some day. I am very sad to be leaving Africa as a whole and my whole outlook on life and my ...

The next day , (19th) I was up ealry ad went down to the post office to send home my malawi chair that I had had on the trucvk the whole trip and completely forgotten about! Then we were all off to the Apartheid museum, which was really interesting and sad. For those who don't know about the aprrtheid (I had never heard of it before coming here)...

We woke up quite a few times during the night as the Airport Backpackers is right next to a motorway and one of the runways at Johannesburg International Airport. We are now on the lookout for a tent with sound insulation. The backpackers had filled up overnight so we met some more travellers during breakfast time. There was quite a bit of dew o...

Woke early, packed up the tent and had toasted cheese, onion and tomato sandwiches for brekkie. Delicious! Evens, our taxi driver from before, picked us up. We had to hand in a gate pass at the hostel gate as security is pretty tight in Lusaka. He drove us to the airport after Doug got 100 000 Kwacha out from the bank. The road out to the airpor...