Days 211 & 212 – Egypt to South Africa

May 4 & 5, 2010 – Alexandria to Cairo, Egypt to Johannesburg, South Africa

Our flight to South Africa is at 12:45am, May 5th. Sound familiar?

This is the exact time of our infamous flight out of Bangkok – refer to blog entry “The Bangkok Express”.

Luckily we’ve learned from our mistakes and triple-check our flight status, so we’re all ready to go. We catch the 3:00pm bus that goes from Alexandria to the Cairo Airport, which gives us plenty of time. And wouldn’t you know it when we arrive, we find out our plane is schedule to leave 15 minutes early.

Of course, as the night progresses this 15 minute advance, turns into a very uninformative 2 hour delay. And Cairo’s airport is lacking in entertainment options, so we end up playing a lot of Skip-Bo.

Eventually our plane takes off and despite the lack of in-flight movies, we finally arrive in Johannesburg, South Africa without any problems.

Our luggage arrives, immigration is a breeze – our customs officer was actually singing while stamping our passports – and our pick-up from Mufasa Backpackers is right on schedule.

We check in to our room and go to sleep… we’re exhausted.