Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Alone in South Africa #1

Bilingual blog
First visit after ....

Visit 
South africa
2 days
Johannesburg
3 days Kruger
2 nights
1 night
Johannesburg
1 morning Johannesburg


1night in Lesotho
1 day
1night

10RAND = 0.79CDN DOLLAR
Departure
Cape town

1 night 
1 day
1 night
1 morning

Departure
Cape town Johannesburg
Departure
Johannesburg Newark Montreal


Lets go!

Population South Africa
63 M
Johannesburg
6.4
CAPE TOWN
5.1 MILLION

Money Rand
10 rands for 0.79 canadian dollars
LANGUAGE
Afrikaans
E lnglish
Misindebele
Isi xhosa
Isi Zuku
Sepedi
Sesothi
Stetswan
Siswatit
Shivenda
Xitsinga
Sasl sign

LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN 
LESOTHO

LESOTHI
SESOTHI
ENGLISH
ZULU 
XHOSA


SOWETO  Maseru 490,000

Day 1
Departure 

What an adventure
I went there to meet a friend
Unfortunately he was called for duty....

Departure
Montreal Newark 
1 hr and a half flight
Many hours wait in Newark airport

Newark airport

Cost a fortune
Hamburger coke
And an adaptor for South Africa
40.00
Tooth paste 
And some fun stuff for kids to give away.



Destination
SOUTH AFRICA
Where my heart is..


The day before my departure.

Preparation:
Suitcase check
Packsack check
Passport ticket check
Insurance
Malaria pills
Med check 
check...

Left home
9:00 am


FLIGHTS

Montreal Newark Air Canada
Montreal airport

Cafe startbuck et madeleine
Changer de l'argent 500.00
600.00cdn

Departure 13.15

14.24 landing
Wait time
6 hours

You need to change terminal
Need to take a shuttle
To terminal C
Walk walk walk 
No body to help
No body 
if you can not use your phone to navigate and book stuff stay home!

And surprise surprise
If Trump had kick all the immigrants this airport would be close.

Spending ay airport in  New York

Achats: 
plug for
Afrique du Sud
Very important this plug is jumbo too.
30.00
A must 
Even 5 stars hotel dont have usb plugs.
DONT HAVE ENOUGH PLUGS 
ITS HELL

CHARGER FOR CAMERA 2 BATTERIES
CHARGER FOR POWER PACK 30 HOURS MINIMUM
CHARGER FOR CELLPHONE.
Charger for tablet.
Charger for your fan for heat
short usb cord to go from your purse to cell phone at all time.

As you take many photo
Long usb cord for hotel
Never at the right place
I LIKE IT NEAR THE BED


Achat hamburger #26.00 US
Achat eau et pate à dent

Conclusion
100.00  US dépensé


FLIGHT
21: 00  united airline

Boarding et je ne savais pas si j'embarquais ou pas.

Grace aux pilotes
Jai pu embarquer.

Dans l'avion
J'ai pogné 2 passagers, un couple de pas gentils.
Je sortais de ma bulle de social media on line pour parler a des gens....
Ça commence pas bien.

Ils ne m'ont pas adressé la parole du vol.

Ils étaient en tabarnac pcq je m'asseoyais au milieu et elle poussait son sac dans mon espace.

Comme je suis sur une passe, je n'ai pas dit un mot.

Nous arriverons dans 2 heures.
J'ai dormie une petit demie heure.

17:25    

Arrival south Africa

Get e-sim
Need 3 times the amount the guys tell you and ask for internet.

The rest are all made by whats app


Rand money
Taxi to hotel Hilton Sandon
     Pictures in the Hilton


SECOND DAY

Hotel so so
so hard
Je me lève et je tousse 
NON stop
Jai du utiliser ma pompe
Je crois que le détergent qu'ils utilisent est trop fort.

Lit dur 
déjeuner froid
Bacon gras

      Pictures in the Hilton


Check for other hotels
Marriott was my first choice  so
Taxi


Arrived at hotel Marriott Protea 

Checked my bag 
Checked my bag at the concierge
And went right away in a tour of the city
4 hours
Perfect
#DADDYS TOUR

Mini van chauffeur
Mandala museum history house ...

We had lunch
Chicken piripiri coca
The chaufeur get to eat free there
Street Zulu performers dancing
Music
Good ambiance

Cold chicken but cooked
Order a la carte

People are very nice friendly
MANDELA DAY

Visited a market

RETURN TO HOTEL RELAX BY THE POOL BEER
HAD DINNER AT THE HOTEL
OSTRICH BAKED POTATOES
TRIED SOME WHITE WINE

Exhausted

Had to Change room too noisy


Second day

Breakfast at hotel
My stomach is noisy
My eyes puffy
Woke up congestion
Reall6 the detergent they use to fkean the rooms or the starch for cleanjng sheet doesnt go well.with me.

The palm tree in my window
Garden: beautiful
Recommand this place 9 out of 10
Good vibe at night at sll the bars too

Booked my safari with
DADDYS TOUR 
WHO FOUND ME WHAT I NEEDED 
BUDGET SAFARI 
GLAM CAMPING
VIva tours
GlamIng campIng
Whst ever you call it

2 nights

10,895 rands

Birds are fun to hear here
Dryness is killing me

FOLLOW MY VACATIONS ON OTHER PARTS













Mini van chauffeur
We had.lunch
Chicken piripiri coca
The chaufeur get to est frer therr
Street Zulu performers dancing
Music
Cold chicken but cooked
Order a la carte

People are very nice friendly
MANDELA DAY

RETURN TO HOTEL RELAX BY THE POOL BEER
HAD.DINNER AT THE HOTEL
OSTRICH BAKED POTATOES
TRIED SOME WHITE WINE

Exhausted

Had to change room too noisy


Second day

Breakfast at hotel
My stomach is noisy
My eyes puffy
Woke up congestion

The palm tree in my window
Garden beautoful
Recommand this place 
9 out of 10
Good vibe at night at the bar too

Booked my safari with
VIva
Glaming camping

2 nights

10,895 rand

Birds are fun to hear here

Dryness is killing me













And I went right away in a tour of the city

4 hours
Perfect
Mini van chauffeur

Saw Mandela museum

Went to Soweto


We had lunch
Chicken piri-piri coca
The chaufeur get to eat for frer there.

Street Zulu performers dancing
Music

Cold chicken but cooked
Order à la carte not the buffet not to get sick.


People are very nice friendly
MANDELA DAY

The chauffeur was excellent and recommanded me my safari.




RETURN TO HOTEL RELAX BY THE POOL

Had a beer by the pool to decide in my safari 
DINNER AT THE HOTEL
OSTRICH BAKED POTATOES
TRIED SOME WHITE WINE
Woa food is amazing in South Africa
I GAIN 3KG

Exhausted

Had to change room too noisy


third day

Breakfast at hotel
My stomach is noisy
My eyes puffy
Woke up congestion

The palm tree in my window
Garden beautiful
Recommand this place 9 out of 10
Good vibe at night at the bar too

Booked my safari with
VIva
Glaming camping

2 nights

10,895 rand

Birds are fun to hear here

Dryness is killing me





















Ostrich dinner
9 on 10


Note de voyage:
20.04 
last pick up
2 hours of picking up people too long
Columbians
Have no respect in being on time
Never

german 2 canadians 2 english australian
Always ready

We did a wonderful piss stop
Saw our first animals
Had a big lunch
Chicken and a beer 15.00cdn

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