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Have now arrived in Jo'burg, just waiting here now for my flight to Australia! Rather excited about going back to Oz and also about being independent and having to make decisions for myself for a change. Plan is to hang around in Cairns for a few days and hopefully hook up with a few people with a car/camper van. If not I will be going by bus to start with down the coast.
After 5 nights partying at Victoria Falls a big detox was in order. We left and crossed the border into Botswana - finally a visa that is FREE for Brit's for a change! Botswana is relatively rich so the supermarkets were actually well stocked with food which was a novelty. Basically we spent the 3 days after vic falls just driving down to Jo'burg. We split off from the rest of the truck - about 5 people left in vic falls, 15 carried onto Cape Town and then there was 7 of us going to Jo'burg. Arrived on Thursday evening, it is such a treat to have walls and a roof and a proper bed! Slept for so long! The first thing that struck me was the lack of people walking about and how many cars there are - straight away the wealth is obvious compared to other african countries. The area we are staying in is quite well off so all the hype about crime, muggings etc doesn't apply to where I am so it's fine walking around in the daytime and in the evening in a group. Such a novelty was seeing the big shopping centres - usually I can't stand places like the Bullring or Meadowhall but it was great to just wander round this modern clean places and marvel at all the shops - culture shock after 5 weeks. Friday night went down to an actual pub with real pint glasses with a few other guys I met in the hostel, all English so spent the entire evenings tallking about football which was also something I have missed, the 'soccer' word wasn't mentioned once!
New camera to be purchased in Sydney, so when I finally get round to it, lots of photos to come. Thanks for all the emails off people, sorry about the lack of replies but internet isn't cheap here!
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