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Detailed travelogue on visiting the remotest inhabited islands in the world (Tristan da Cunha and St Helena), also South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia. Very interested read, and indexed.
Remotest Islands in the World St Helena, Tristan da Cunha + S. Africa, Malaysia, mor
Larry2006-05-27 03:20:07
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office which
was supposed to open at 6:00am, but walking there, I found it dark and
closed, and even when we began reboarding the flight at 6:20am, no one had
shown up. In the meantime, the coffee stand had opened at 6:00am, so I hung
out there talking with an older South African couple (originally from
Britain) and the waitress about our recent American election. Once open, I
also had a look inside the main duty-free shop, and was surprised to see
Nando's peri-peri sauces available for sale in souvenir take-home bottles.
On board the plane again, our takeoff to Cape Town was delayed by 1hr
20mins because three passengers didn't re-board as they were supposed to.
With a list of passengers, the stewardesses walked through the aisles asking
people their names as they tried to figure out who was missing. Once the
identities of the missing passengers had been ascertained, we then had to
wait as a search was done for their checked-in baggage (so it could be
removed) -- though in the end, it turned out none of the three passengers
had checked in any bags.
Finally in the air again, it was another 1hr 50mins to Cape Town, and
before landing, the stewardesses walked through the aisles spraying the
plane with disinfectant (though I have no idea why they did this before
arriving into Cape Town, as they didn't spray before landing in
Johannesburg). Looking down at the thousands of shanties below, I
remembered what Paula (of One City Tours) said last year: that she knows
it's soap opera time when the planes start flying overhead.
Standing in line at Cape Town immigration, I had a sense of deja vu...
one year ago at the same time of day in the same sunny weather, I was here
in the same line, waiting for the entry stamps. There was a shorter wait
this year, but the lady stamped my passport with a visa expiring Feb. 1st
(the
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
,
Malaysia Gallery
,
Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
