It's been a couple days since my last post, so I thought I would give a quick update on my travels. Not a lot has happened this week, though tomorrow morning I am leaving for Kruger Park (check out my itinerary) to go on a "true African adventure." I have probably heard the words "true African adventure" or "true African experience" 100 times while I have been here--just about every promotion on the radio is described this way. But hopefully my safari this weekend will actually be an African experience (I'm crossing my fingers that its not worse than last weekend). I have heard mixed opinions on safaris during the winter; some people have said its good because their isn't a lot of cover to hide the animals (winter is the dry season); others have said sometimes its difficult to see the bigger predators because they travel north of South Africa towards Mozambique during the winter in search of prey. It would be nice to see all of the Big 5 (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards, buffalo), and the camp that we are staying at the second night is close to Mozambique so hopefully we will.
As for Johannesburg, I am definitely more used to the hectic driving out here. South Africa's department of transportation has a lot of work ahead of them for the World Cup in 2010. Every day there is a new traffic light that is out of order, street signs are barely visible (especially at night), and taxis literally stop in the middle of the street to drop passengers off (with no warning). Another thing I found annoying driving back from the airport on Sunday is that the interstate is not labeled by direction (N, S, E, W) but instead by the city it goes to... this wasn't really helpful when I was trying to get onto N3 westward and my options were places I had never heard of like Soweto and Benoni. Might consider fixing that when an estimated 3 million visitors show up in a couple years.
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