Melrose Arch Johannesburg

... if not thousands of people around nothing is really going to happen to you (just have common sense as far as your valuables are concerned). <br><br>I got to the station to call for my hostel pick up but there number wasn&#8217;t available. I decided to wait and try again a bit later but after 30mins of trying I just thought &#8220;**** it, let&#8217;s get a cab&#8221;. The cab driver was asking for 80 Rand which I thought was ok but I still refused and walk away to ...

... He gave us tickets for the first flight out in the morning and three very nice hotel rooms at Africa's largest and best casino. AND 2 MORE MEAL VOUCHERS.<br><br>We took a shuttle bus to the hotel. On the bus, a man looked very concerned for us and asked why the three of us were visiting Johannesburg. He was relieved when we told him we were just staying the night. We arrived at the nicest hotel on the trip yet, dropped our bags off, and went to the casino to ...

... At night, if you are alone in the car and on the street, treat the red light as yield not a stop. Leave some space at the stop between your car the one in front of you to be able to move if necessary. Avoid certain areas: Hillbrow, Yeoville and the Central Business District, which are the areas where the crime level is the highest. Working habits Another interesting thing is that South Africans in my office work from 8am to 5pm max, and you ...

... and treacherous Skeleton Coast to Cape Agulhas, then up along rolling green hills and wide beaches fronting the warm Indian Ocean, to a border with subtropical Mozambique in the north east. The low-lying coastal zone is narrow for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment that separates it from the high inland plateau. In some places, notably the province of KwaZulu-Natal in the east, a greater distance ...

... was really special. Then on the Sesriem and the Namib dunes at Sossusvlei. That included doing a dirt route of about 140 kilos. Most of the road was ok except in stream crossings - they were dry but one had to slow right down. We had 5 kilos of really bad road. As camping at Sesriem was going to cost R750 we opted to stay about 30 kilos before Sesriem at Betesta lodge. It was so nice to arrive early in the afternoon and to have to time to read and ...

... 80pounds for the whole week - Nice!! So, I went out for a drive - thankfully they drive on the left so it's just like driving in England!! Yipppeeee - freedom again!!! I ended up in Greenstone shopping mall which is where I stayed for most of the day....the weather is sooooooo hot, it was great to be in air conditioning!! I didn't hear anything from Andy or Nik so I spent the evening on my own in the hostel, chatted to Gertie for a while and then ...

... here for two nights, and at least the bed is clean!<br><br><br><br> I could write for ages about all the things that I have done, but unfortunately I don't have the time to sit and write loads of detail about everything, and I'm sure you don't have the time to sit and read it all.<br><br>For photo highlights look here:<br>http://www.facebook.com/album. php?aid=1509&amp;l=6b57d&amp;id=5078996 98<br>

... so much so that one observer feels that it is now becoming cool to be HIV positive in South Africa. Even Adel's 4-year-olds are practising a scolding chant: "Stop killing our parents! Stop killing our parents! Stop killing us! ..." It probably doesn't hurt to have the bad old days as a reference point; anything would seem better than that. It also doesn't hurt to be coming from Zimbabwe. Recently Mugabe announced that the ...

... out of the sand in lion territory (South Luaunga National Park, Zambia) 17. Learning to surf! (Tofo, Mozambique) 18 ...

... is provided by a game called 'Fingerboard'. It's a metre-squared board with a rim. 12 or so large round counters, 6 red and 6 yellow, about 3cm in diameter are placed in a circle around the centre. In the centre a single white counter is placed. Each player has a green counter, which they flick so that it strikes the coloured counters. Like pool but without the cues - the aim is to get a counter into one of the four corner pockets. Any colour can ...