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Radiac's South African Adventure, Part 3

African Adventure Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Day Three - Sunday 17th October

Another ludicrously early morning. Had to wake up at 7.30 (6.30 UK time) so that I'd be ready for breakfast. Food was conventional, but the juice was most disappointing. Having checked out, we set off for Sun City, which is right next to the Pilanesburg national park, sitting in between a couple of the mountains, and so just around the corner from where we were staying.

"Oooh, I lived in Johannesburg for a couple of years ...

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Radiac's South African Adventure, Part 2

African Adventure Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

While the rest of the flight was uneventful, the landing was quite alarming - I'm sure planes shouldn't be able to turn at 90 degrees without falling out of the sky, and when we actually hit the runway, we rocked violently from side to side and I thought I was going to die. I clearly didn't, but by the time we had come to a stop, it was raining. Joke.

And the jokes just kept on coming - since I pretty much had ...

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Radiac's South African Adventure, Part 1

African Adventure Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

At some point in the next few months, I'll be re-jigging this website, and re-writing the diary to allow me to do posts like this a bit more sensibly. But for now, you will have to bear with the slightly odd layout and until I add time zones, you can take all entry times to be local (I'll fiddle them manually). I really should have planned my internet requirements a bit better before I left - but more about that in part 4 ...

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And they're off!

I think I'm already! My bag is 5kg though, and I'm only allowed 5kg... I'm blatantly not going anywhere ;)

I hope I'll have internet access of some sort when I'm down there - if I don't, I'm back in 2 weeks, so watch for some updates and photos then :)

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