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Today we are continuing our journey south toward Hong Kong. 3 Days will give us time to recover from the port days and continue to plan excursions on the African stops.
We were lucky in that the Kruger Shalati tour through HAL has opened some additional spots. We are booked on this excursion. It leaves from Maputo in Mozambique and we will do game drives through the Kruger National Park. We will be staying on a train that is permanently parked on a bridge overlooking the park. We will take a flight to Cape Town and meet the ship after we are finished. We have golf booked in Cape Town but it is not going to work with this excursion.
We learned through others that 5 busses on their way to the great wall were detained by the same inspectors that we passed through. The officials demanded passports that no one had. They were delayed over an hour. The Captain spoke about how the officials in Tianjin and Beijing operate very differently than those in Shanghai.
We did two rounds of team trivia today. What did the chewy M&M candy become? Where is Acadia National Park? The name of the dinosaur on the Flintstones? Which television show featured New Jersey mob members? Which type of rock holds fossils? Who played guitar on Michael Jackson’s Beat It? What is a fish with no eyes? (you won’t find this one. It’s FSH) What is a Bear with no teeth? Who was Barbie’s younger sister? Hope you did well. We were in the top third.
Chute down from the Great Wall!