We left Congo and eventually flew into Joburg. For four nights we stayed at Brown Sugars hostel. It was great! It's actually a mansion built by a gangster in the 70's and backpackers took over when he moved out.
Pardon the crazy face.
Me, Anna, Sharlene, Judith, and Kaye overlooking Joburg.
Johannesburg is the first real western city we've hit since the start of the trip and the first night, the five of us went out for some good Chinese food. McDonalds followed.
The next days were filled with shopping at the mall. Most of my clothes have stains and holes from, ya know, camping (I've been rotating the same two pairs of shorts and three tank tops for the past 4 months) so it was nice to get some new stuff. And I got a ukulele! It's purty.
For four days, the five of us stayed in Joburg. We went to the Apartheid museum and learned about the history and struggle of Apartheid.
Kaye and Judith flew to Windhoek and Anna, Sharlene and I rented a car and drove to Swaziland, a landlocked country boarding South Africa and Mozambique. Swaziland had BEAUtiful scenery! We went to a cultural village and saw traditional dancing. It lasted 45 minutes and I even got pulled up to dance too!
Most of the audience, besides us, were Swazi school kids.
After leaving Swaziland, we went into the caves that contain the oldest yet discovered human skeleton, Little Foot.
We went deep, deep down into the earth.
An underwater lake. They still don't know how deep it goes and years ago, someone died in the water. Spooky!
This is the guy who discovered it. I think he looks a bit like my grandpa Fred:
We finally got back to Johannesburg and stayed at 2B Happy hostel. It felt like a home away from home. In our last few days in Joburg, we visited Newtown, the Museum of Africa and spent a day in Soweto (a town ship).
Then a flight to Windhoek, Namibia reunited me back to the truck. I'm home! Ah, truck sweet truck!
- Sent from Africa using my iPad
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