a budget trip from Kruger to Cape
The tour was to end in a town I’d never heard of, for those not taking the 1½-hour airport transfer for the group flight, and I didn’t feel the need to stay in Namibia any longer. My search for a flight out showed that the vast majority (including the group flight back to the UK) went via Johannesburg – and while I was pondering my next step, I received a marketing email from a tour company for a trip starting in Joburg on the evening of that group flight, a trip taking in Eswatini and Lesotho where I had never been as well as a few new destinations in South Africa. & it was a cheap trip, as much of the three weeks were to be spent camping … and I was already carrying the required sleeping bag as I’d needed it for Angola! Everything seemed to be pointing me towards signing up for this trip, which I did. So I went straight from a pretty intensive two weeks around Namibia into a full-on three weeks, arriving at the hotel in Joburg five minutes after the introductory ...