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3 months in Africa -- detailed travelogue, travel tips, indexed

Larry
2006-05-27 03:11:54

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I must
give my kudos to American -- they did a great job. First, the agent at the
check-in counter not only gave me an exit-row seat for the American portion,
but when I asked if it'd be possible to have an upper-deck seat on the SAA
flight (as on some SAA aircraft, the upper-deck is set aside for economy),
she gave me the most coveted seat of all: 14A, the exit-row window seat on
the upper-deck, affording me plenty of leg room, and the ability to get up
and walk around anytime I pleased. On the American portion from LAX to
Miami, American waived the usual $5 headset charge, and handed out free
headsets for everyone to watch a special holiday showing of "National
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." Plus, we were served not one, but two hot
meals.
The SAA flight from Miami to Cape Town wasn't bad either, and that
upper-deck, exit-row seat really came in handy as the hours passed into
double-digits. Before long, it was early afternoon on Dec. 21st, and I was
going through South African immigration at Cape Town airport.
For my first night in Cape Town, I had advance-booked myself into a B&B I
found on the internet: Radium Hall, and Gilian (the owner) met me at the
airport to take me back to the B&B in her Opel Astra. Radium Hall is
located in the Tamboerskloof area of central Cape Town -- a wealthy
neighborhood with narrow streets, rich homes, electrified fences, and plenty
of B&Bs. It's a good place to stay, but at R250/US$41, seemed a bit
expensive (especially with no air-con). Later, I found a better place, but
Radium still isn't a bad choice, and to be fair, R250 is pretty typical of
B&B prices in the city.
On the trip back from the airport, Gilian stopped at an ATM so I could
withdraw some money in rand (with the rate being about US$1=R6.1). Most
South African banks are connected to the ...

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