Got up early for my flight. Dubai airport is very interesting. Security very tight. Full body scans for all. Seemed like we had security check point after security check point. When we finally started boarded we were all boarded onto a bus where we drove for miles and miles past emirate plane after emirate plane. My friend Tess is an air traffic controller at Dubai airport and she said that there are over 1000 planes on the ground at any one time and over 3000 in the air. When we finally drove past all 1000 planes it seemed, we came to a plane parked and they let us off and boarded the plane by walking on the Tarmac. Looking back at all the boarding stations and you see everyone is being boarded by bus. The buses are stopping at intersections to let the planes go by. Interesting concept, you take the people to the plane and therefore don't need so many loading docks. Another interesting fact. Everyone who works for emirates must live in Dubai. That is a lot of people with some very long commutes! 10 hr flight. Another smooth flight sitting with a gentleman in his 70,s from the states. He was a retired dentist and was very interesting to talk to. He was at the window seat and got a very nice picture of the palm island as we took off. He said he would email it to me. He was meeting his son in Cape Town. They were going to climb table mountain and were also going shark diving. Yes I said climb table mountain! He had done the desert safari and also went up the Burj Khalfa to view the city. Both adventures he said were well worth it. Missed both those! Guess I have to go back.
Arrived in cape town, South Africa at 4:30pm. Hailed a taxi and shared it with a few other people and off to the room we went. I was the last to be dropped off. We did a lot of driving around. So didn't get to the room till about 6pm.
My room was a lovely small place one block from the beach. The nicest staff, where you felt like you were the only ones staying there. They had free Internet, free bottled water, did my laundry and. The lady there bought my tickets online for me to save me money.
It was late when I arrived and after a 10 hr flight and another 14 hr travel day I was ready for bed, but had to find a place eat. So walked to the beach to a lovely restaurant where I had salmon for 140 rand. Or approx 14 dollars. The temperature here in Cape Town was a shock. It was about 10 degrees and windy and cloudy. After dinner it was to bed so I could be up by 730 to meet Peter for my private photographic tour of the cape.
Drink I tried in Dubai. It was a juice. Will have to get the name of it. Was very refreshing. The green color was the lime. It was a lime aid of some kind.
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