Capetown, South Africa
November 23, 2022
5:30 am for an early morning game drive. Bella took us around to see animals that were still up and moving around.
We spent three hours driving around the park and observed all kinds of animals. We had breakfast at 8:30 and then began to pack for our drive to the Kasane Airport. We were to leave at 11:15. This group is always ready 30 minutes before departure. We arrived at 11:10 and were the last to load onto the trucks.
The drive to Kasane was about 30 mins. We did see some elephant and water buffalo one the way out. Bella drove us.
It was an international flight. Botswana to South Africa. I felt so much safer filling out the 4×4 inch piece of paper that asked for information found on my passport. Who comes up with these ridiculous rules? I did decided to put down Superman for my name. I noticed the immigration official giving me the double take. He then probably realized that I had my glasses on and was in my Clark Kent disguise. Proceed.
I do know that potential hijackers and smugglers are very fearful of the 4×4 sheet of paper with all of the questions. This has had to turn many away. Good thinking by government officials.
The flight to Johannesburg was about 90 minutes. We had to grab our bags from the turn style and go through immigration and then customs. Customs has changed all over the world. Proceed to the “nothing to declare” line and there is no one to check anything. No dumb forms either.
The connection to Cape Town was about 2 hours. We arrived in Cape Town about 8 pm and loaded busses for the port. We were back home on the ship about 9 pm. It felt good and we were tired.…