Our South Africa trip was all about Kruger and Cape Town, but getting there required much travel. We were relieved when Westjet signed an eleventh hour deal with its pilots because despite having booked all KLM flights, we discovered just days before our trip that our first flight would be "operated by Westjet". We flew to Calgary to connect to Amsterdam. Then waited for another long flight to Johannesburg. We transferred from the airport to our nearby hotel and had only a brief delay when they didn't have record of our stay in their system. By then we had been travelling more than 29 hours, with an additional 9 hours of time zone difference tacked on for good measure. It was late and we had to wake early for breakfast before a long journey the next day. I took a photo of the information placard to demonstrate what we wanted to see, and another to show what we actually experienced. Fortunately we had much better luck just a short distance away at the viewpoints for "God's Window". After three nights at Kruger, we needed to make our way back to the Johannesburg airport for a flight to Cape Town. We took a different route back, stopping first at the Alzu Petroport - a gas station complex with restaurants, shops, cafes, and a massive animal reserve where we saw elands, gemsbok/oryx, ostriches, and more. Our main stop of the day was at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. We joined thousands of school children on fieldtrips outside the official seat of the South African Government and the office of the President of South Africa. There are large terraced gardens with statues and cannons. Our return trip was slightly simpler as we had just one connection in Amsterdam , but it was still a very long journey from Cape Town to YVR.
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