Africa - Day 4 & 5

Our bush walk was pretty awesome, we tasted marulo fruit from the ground, walked around a bit, watched our guide, Abel, eat nuts fished out of elephant dung and spit giraffe droppings 20 feet! (the first time he did it, we all looked at each other and were like, um did he just do what I think he did? The second time, I dry heaved a little -- Stef)

The bus ride back to Jo-burg with John and Leslie was pretty fun. We stopped at the stunning Blyde river canyon for some photos (and souvenir shopping), had lunch at Wimpy's, then got stuck in Jo-burg rush hour. Leslie found a really cute guest house in the Melville section of Jo-burg. The house was right around the corner of a cute street with candle lit restaurants and bars. We walked out for dinner and a few beers 2 blocks from the guest house, watched a crazy lightening storm from a Portuguese restaurant, and stopped for a night cap on the way back at a night club with a fishtank susoended in velvet walls.

The proprietor of the guest house cautioned us about Jo-burg traffic, resulting in an early departure for the airport. A taxi picked us up at 6:15 and dropped us at the airport around 7, where we found our 11 AM flight was cancelled and we had been re-booked on the 12:10 flight. Not quite the 3 hours of traffic we were told to expect, but we're pretty used to getting up early at this point.

We had plenty of time for a leisurely breakfast with John and Leslie, and then a few beers before boarding. A little breakfast Guiness to settle the stomach!

-- Pete and Stef