So it's Friday and I'm out of Johannesburg. Not before time too. For those not familiar with travel in Africa you need a big dose of patience, a sense of humour and absolutely no expectation anything will run to schedule. As it so happens the 2hr delays in my bus arrival into PMB was a pretty minor affair but as always there were one or two adventures along the way. The intercape bus service I should say was exceptional and ill definitely be using them again. I booked to leave from the nearest stop to my Joburg lodge and found myself walking down the verge of the main Pretoria-Joburg motorway to get to it. There was honestly no other way and everyone else was doing the same, when in Africa.... Etc. A polite local offered to give me a ride to whereever I was going but tickets were already booked. Most of the journey was uneventful. The bus soon filled up when we stopped at Joburg's main Park Station, I found myself surrounded by noisy middle aged women who were constantly on the phone sharing their half of the conversation with the rest of the bus. When they weren't shouting away I was treated to the delights of loud "humming" to an unknown song. And when I say humming I really mean a god awful screech which would make your dog run away and wee itself. It was worse than a cat in a washing machine! But slightly better than that guy Rylan from xfactor 2012.
Surprised today to see abit of snow an ice on the road to PMB as we were coming over some of the mountain passes. There were several accidents on this stretch and it makes me wonder how feasible going through Lesotho will be given the whole country is above 1400m. Off to the tourist info tomorrow for thoughts and advice.
I'm at Sleep Hollow Backpackers tonight, near the student district in PMB, a pretty decent area. The building is a converted bungalow and suits me nicely. It's a quiet little place.
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