Day 2 - Arrival in Jo'burg

Sean - After finally leaving doha which felt like a couple of days we boarded the flight to jo’burg (again with the ample leg room) and I had another irritating passenger sitting next to me trying to take up my seat as well as hers.

When we arrived at jo’burg we picked up the beast from avis car hire(see photos). Outside Avis Stu pointed out a local celeb; the South African cricket captain, not that Jamie or I knew who he was.

The drive to the guest house was quite interesting as the roads are quite dangerous (with me on them) as I nearly took out another driver when there was a minor misunderstanding and a late change of direction on the motorway (we got our first beeping and hand signals from a rather irate driver in his massive 4x4), but in the end managed to get to the guest house which was located in a secured estate.

Got into the guesthouse which is pretty plush (again see picture of Jamies room) and the owners are friendly. I had the elephant themed room complete with tusks as the beds head board, Stu had the zebra room with the Hugh Heffner style bedding and Jamie had the lion themed room.

After we settled in the guest house we went to the legendary Steers burger restaurant for an amazing meal. We then went to see Stu’s relatives 10 minutes down the road and spent the rest of the evening there. The place is HUGE and they are all really cool. We had a nice game meat meal cooked with the warthog and other meats which Kelvin had hunted.

After returning home we had a few game of cards before retiring to our ice cold beds (its hot in the day but freezing at night) to prepare for the early morning.