Johannesburg, South Africa

On Wednesday, May 28th, we made the journey to South Africa! We got a taxi from Diani to the airport since it'd be the easiest thing. From there, we caught a flight to Nairobi. We had a 4 hour layover in Nairobi, which sucked. I managed to fall asleep for a few minutes and then a whole extended family of Asians had to come and sit literally in the seat next to me and start talking extremely loud when there were a ton of other seats to choose from. I was so mad. The time passed pretty quickly though and before I knew it, it was time to get on the plane. The plane ride was 4 hours to Joburg. We were seated in the first row behind 1st class. We kept peeking through the curtains and the guy next to us and the steward in 1st class were laughing at us. There was no one in the seats in front of us, so we also stole their pillows since only 1st class got some. I thought sitting there was going to suck, but it was actually pretty nice because we had a lot of leg room and were able to put our feet up. We arrived in Joburg at about 7 p.m. and found a taxi to our hostel. We stayed at this really cute place called Bob's Bunk House. It's a hostel run by this cute little old guy named Bob and his wife. We pretty much just went on the internet for a little while and then headed off to bed. In the morning, Bob made some toast for us and even brought out 1 apple for each of us. It was really cute. We ended up leaving this hostel though to stay in a hostel in Melville closer to where Sarah's friend YumYum lived and the bus station. Our next hostel was just called Melville International Backpackers. Our room there was the most full room we've stayed in yet. It was almost completely full. We met up around 12 with YumYum and her boyfriend's brother Pegul. We went and ate lunch at a place called Nando's and then went to the mall. After that, we split up from Pegul and we went to YumYum's dorm for a little and then to a bigger mall. We then went back to the hostel to eat dinner. Since that hostel had a kitchen, we were able to cook. We had some soup and grilled cheese. Even though it took forever because the stove sucked, it was delicious. Later that night we went out with YumYum, her boyfriend, and his brother. We went to this place and had huge beers for really cheap. We were having a really good time, but unfortunately the place closed pretty early. They dropped us off back at our hostel where we said our goodbyes.

Mt. Kilimanjaro from the airplane!