Well it took two days but I finally got to leave Mauritius. The flight was delayed from Thursday until Friday morning. So I watched the sunset and read some more of my book. Then I was eating dinner alone and two women invited me to join them. They're sisters from Port Elizabeth, SA and were visiting their other sister in Mauritius. They were real nice and told me all sorts of great things to see and do in SA. Then we were joined by Jones, another South African, who is also a pilot (for the same airline that stranded us in Mauritius) and he was real nice. He had great stories about flying over Sudan and crazy African weather problems. I went to bed knowing I had to be up at 4 to leave at 5 and hop on the flight at 8 to Joburg. There were croaking toads so loud I almost didn't fall asleep. Sounded like they were right outside my door. I was up early and then the airport shuttles didn't arrive until 630. It was a mess and some people got mad while others laughed. We all made it to the airport and then took off around 9. The flight was great, pretty smooth. I had a wonderful view of Reunion and then we flew right over Madagascar. So amazing!
At the airport in Joburg I missed the flight to Maputo, so I am staying at a backpackers near the airport. There's a Belgian group here too and I had dinner with them. I'm staying in the dorm with them because its about $40 cheaper than getting my own room and I have to leave at 7 tomorrow morning anyway.
So I am super happy to have made it out of Mauritius and super happy that I didn't have to pay for two nights at the fancy resort.
Hopefully my next correspondence will be from Mozambique.
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