Food and drafts were good (and cheap). They have a place like Fogo near our hotel and the price is about $15. It's like that all over Capetown and Johannesburg. Tall drafts were around $3.
When yall were out of the city, where did yall stay, what did you eat, etc... Or did you just always stay in a city?
We stayed in 2 Safari camps for 3 nights each. Mashatu in Botswana and MalaMala in South Africa. We started the trip with a couple of days in Johannesburg to acclimate. After MalaMala we flew to Capetown for 5 nights then back to Johannesburg for 3 nights. https://mashatu.com/mashatu-lodge/ https://www.malamala.com/camps/malamala-camp
@bobrek have you had to bribe anyone, hide any politically persecuted refugees and/or fight rogue lions yet? Asking for a friend for science purposes.
Other than punching a penguin and bribing the Delta gate agent to get my wife upgraded to Delta One for the trip home, not much else.
Good call on the plane seat. I would have taken the first class and let my wife ride coach but whatever you need to do to sit apart for a long ass flight.
My charm wasn't quite enough to get us both upgraded. So far it's been a miserably turbulent flight. Only 14.5 hours left to Atlanta. Then a 3 hour layover. Then a short flight to Tampa. Pretty sure we'll both get the first class upgrade for the short ATL to TPA flight. At least the wifi streaming seems good enough to be able to watch the Astros game.
I had a guy who is from South Africa do some work for me recently. We started chatting, and I told him I always wanted to visit various regions of Africa and possibly around South Africa. He told me it's a nuthouse there now where nothing was maintained and they have no clue what they're doing, so most people are trying to get out. Did you feel unsafe or have any sense of "maybe we shouldn't have done this" while you were there? Are you able to move around the cities fairly safely or did you need bodyguards? lol.
Travel Tip.... If you're on a flight and can't sleep, load up the audio book Ulysses by James Joyce. Guaranteed better than Xanax.
We mostly stayed near our hotels. There is a nice waterfront district in Capetown and we felt perfectly safe there. We then moved to a Doubletree and walked around in a sketchier area, but still felt safe. When we were first in Johannesburg we stayed about 1/2 mile from Mandela Square and felt safe when we ventured out. The last few days we were in a Marriott Protea hotel and it was actually in a gated shopping district. Perfectly safe in there, but we did venture outside the gates the first night to find a convenience store. Felt the most unsafe on that walk. Also, we had a driver for our 2 full days in the waterfront district in Capetown. Incidentally, when we were in the Doubletree we got upgraded to the Loft Suite. 2 stories, probably 700-800 square feet. SEVENTY-FIVE USD a night.
That seems like a brutal flight — 15 hours. I’m hoping to go to Africa (Nigeria) in a few years. My Nextdoor neighbor is apparently a tribal chief and he’s moving back when his last kid graduates. He invited me to tour his compound lol.
He's your neighbor on Nextdoor.com? Does he have the deep, booming HA HA HA African stereotype laugh? In my head he does Sounds like a movie starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio You absolutely need to go
Lol I hate my phone. Randomly capitalizes things. But I guess technically if he’s my neighbor then he’s also my neighbor on Nextdoor.com he does not have that laugh. He’s soft spoken and 40% of the time I just nod and smile because I can’t understand him/he’s too quiet. the third installment of Coming to America? Can’t be any worse than the 2nd… yikes that was a bad movie. I definitely plan to. I was supposed to go to North Africa after college but my friends backed out because of Arab spring.
