May has turned into a the beginning of the next stage. We’ve been fully vaccinated and the world is slowly starting to open back up. I’ve put together the Costa Rica trip, which is now taking place in August, as the airfare is much cheaper. I was able to get it through SW and use my point, yay! I’ve booked lodging for 11 days - $300 for the first 10 days and $100 for the last day, lol. I could have gone cheap on the last day, I have places that I use close to the airport, but the name brand hotels next to the airport are usually really expensive and I was able to get one for $100. We’ll have a full hot breakfast (included in the room) and a ride to the airport. Our flight is at 8am, so I figured being really close and having that breakfast available would be worth the extra cost. Plus, a pool, a bar and air conditioning will be nice as we wind up to go home. I’ve rented a room in Paris for the month of November. Th...
Day 3 I have two new roommates and we are all independant for the next few days. One of the roommates will be joining my tour group for the Garden Tour add on and then joining another
safari at the end of that one. The second roommate has never stayed in a hostel before and is taking a year to independant travel through Africa. Both young and in good shape and no one has knee issues...but they were very
tolerant of me. We were through the options and made a plan for the next couple of days. We decided to do the hop on hop off bus that starts at the waterfront and add on some attractions it connects too. There were 3 loops
of the bus and dozens of places you could visit, but if you don’t get an early start you won’t be able to see much. It also has and audio tour that you listen to while it’s driving around and the audio tour
alone is with the price of the bus. We did two of the three lops and we had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe, explored the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, explored the World of Birds / Animal Sanctuary and tried to ride the ferris
wheel at sunset (which we missed by about 10 minutes, still got decent photos in the dusk). Knowing what I know now....I would have started much earlier (we started at 11am) and spent the entire morning at the Gardens and
then spent the entire afternoon at the Bird/Sanctuary. We were able to spend about an hour at each of these location and it was no where near enough. But since we had such a crunch on time, we did pretty good.
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