Back To Southern Africa
Nov 13, 2016, 3:22 am
#63
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. Yes, I definitely recommend a visit to South Africa, such a beautiful place and I will have to go back again.. My apologies, I should have clarified, Swaziland is the last 'absolute' monarchy in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolu...ute_monarchies
Nov 13, 2016, 9:50 pm
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! We were worried about the cable-car closing due to high winds too when we were climbing up, and our guide was regularly checking the status on his mobile phone. Luckily we were ok though and the cable car was sheltered by the winds.
Nov 14, 2016, 9:58 pm
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Nov 15, 2016, 1:32 am
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Nov 15, 2016, 9:43 am
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Interesting stuff. Regarding immigration at Johannesburg -- I have just got back from a month in South Africa and Zambia -- we arrived at JNB at 8.30 am on a LH B747-8 from Frankfurt along with three other Jumbo flights. Passport control took 3 HOURS and we were told this is not uncommon at this time of of day. (One elderly man collapsed in the queue.) The return flight from LUN arrived at 2pm and passport control took 20 minutes.
Nov 20, 2016, 4:07 am
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Interesting stuff. Regarding immigration at Johannesburg -- I have just got back from a month in South Africa and Zambia -- we arrived at JNB at 8.30 am on a LH B747-8 from Frankfurt along with three other Jumbo flights. Passport control took 3 HOURS and we were told this is not uncommon at this time of of day.
, I would get antsy after just 1 hour!!!. Rianda organised our itinerary for Cape Town, her first time doing the planning for one of our trips, and she actually surprised me with quite a cool four days.
Nov 22, 2016, 6:33 am
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Interesting stuff. Regarding immigration at Johannesburg -- I have just got back from a month in South Africa and Zambia -- we arrived at JNB at 8.30 am on a LH B747-8 from Frankfurt along with three other Jumbo flights. Passport control took 3 HOURS and we were told this is not uncommon at this time of of day. (One elderly man collapsed in the queue.) The return flight from LUN arrived at 2pm and passport control took 20 minutes.
Also, is this really your first post since you joined in 2005?
Nov 26, 2016, 11:37 pm
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Nov 27, 2016, 6:15 pm
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Thank you - another one well done!! Thanks for showing us another part of South Africa.