Mithila Krishnan

Zambia (10 June 2011 to 13 June 2011) Next morning with our lunches packed once again, we headed to the airport for our flight to Zambia. Flying a low cost airline, “1time”, we didn’t want to take chances so went way ahead of time, grabbed a sandwich, muffin and a coffee at the airport and boarded the plane to Victoria Falls. Livingstone airport was a tiny quaint place with bizarre amounts of checking and immigration formalities into the country. Our pick-up from the hotel “The Waterfront” awaited us and we reached the same in about 20 minutes. Checked in, had our lunch and headed out to plan our activities there. After booking for the tour of the falls and the micro-light flight for the next day we roamed around the property and settled by the deck ... read more

Johannesburg (4 June 2011 - 10 June 2011) Next morning was the flight to Johannesburg so we woke up early, picked up a driver from the rental car showroom who dropped us off at the airport and we were off to Jo’burg. Johannesburg was a bit of a let down after Cape Town with dry lifeless surroundings and a desert atmosphere. Baggage was delayed so we quickly rushed to the car rental showroom and picked up the car we had book – our dream – the luxurious Nissan Xtrail!! Brand new, shiny silver, it was waiting for us in the parking and we couldn’t wait get on the road. After a long struggle with fixing the GPS to locate our guest house we drove for an hour and half to reach the place and found it ... read more

We departed Bangalore International Airport on 1 Jun 2011 to Abu Dhabi on Etihad Airways. Etihad, much to our surprise, had very nice on board services and excellent, steaming hot meals and comfortable seats for the economy class. On arriving at Abu Dhabi at 7.00 AM we realized that we had a day long transit before our connecting flight to Cape Town much later that Night – its only with such incidents do we learn to check the transit time before hand!! Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal was quiet fascinating. It was a small and non entertaining airport, but the people and their culture was fascinating to look at – be it the prayers on the PAS, the whole architecture of the airport, or men accompanied by more than 1 wives!! Hours passed merely by eating, reading ... read more