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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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/>(the day I'd be leaving South Africa back for Malaysia) -- though I wondered
what would happen if I wound up needing a few extra days in the country.
Unlike KLIA, the baggage at Cape Town airport came out quickly, so I soon
found myself looking for an ATM and a place to buy a telephone card.
There's construction going on at the airport, and a sign indicating that
the new international arrivals terminal would be finished by December 2000
(oh well...) Hopefully when it finally is completed, someone will think to
install an ATM and a telephone card dispenser at the terminal -- for even
though these are arguably the two most important services needed for
incoming international passengers, you have to walk over to the domestic
terminal to find them. Once at the domestic departures area, one ATM had a
"closed" sign on it, and the other dispensed my request using only R50
notes. Needing change now for the telephone card machine, no shop would
give it to me (the bank had a long queue), so I had to get some by buying a
small snack at a kiosk. The rand was very weak against the dollar (at
US$1=R7.5), but by the time I returned to Cape Town in mid-January, it had
fallen to US$1=R7.9. As good as the exchange rate was though, prices didn't
seem to be that much cheaper than they were last year when the rate was
US$1=R6.1, with Q&Q watches still selling for US$30, and very few real
bargains.
Though last year I found and stayed at a wonderful B&B in the Oranjezicht
area of town (Bridle's), the B&B was booked for some of the days I'd need to
stay with them... so the owners instead set me up with a friend of theirs
just starting a B&B in the nearby Vredehoek area. Because I was exhausted
from the flight and just wanted to get to town, I didn't call the B&B from
the airport even though I probably should
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
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Malaysia Gallery
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Singapore Gallery
,
South Africa Gallery
