First impression, holy shit I am in South Africa and I need to brush my teath! Second impression, the airport here looks just like any other airport so how would I know other than the people have an accent.
Changed over $100 and got back $1,032 in South African Rand! That seems like a lot to me until I went and got a coffee, water and yoghurt and spent $62 Rand on it. And the water is sparkling, forgot this is what most other places seem to drink for water.
The customs folks seemed pretty surly. Did not say a word to me just took my passport, hit a stamp on it and gave it back. But outside of there everybody seems very friendly, more than what you would get at O'Hare. I'm the foreigner now so maybe that is part of it and I was a bit skeptical when a porter offered to carry my bags and help me check in for my flight to Polokwani. I read you should be careful on who you work with as there are scam artists but he had a uniform on and helped me out. Not knowing how much to tip him he suggested $100 Rand, and yes, I know when the porter tells you how much to tip that is probably to their benefit. But he was actually pretty helpful and when I do the reverse math that is just under $10 USD, which does not seem so out of line. Based on the airport prices at the cafe I essentially tipped him lunch.
Next stop Botswana, which is essentially a black hole of communications as there is no electricity where I am going. The only internet access is "in town" which is 1.5 hours from our camp.
So I'll be going off line soon for a while but will spam it all back out once I get back to Cape Town.
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