Day 6 – Traveling to Port Elizabeth

Sunday was a rare day of almost pure travel – no school visits or tours. 

We said goodbye to Johannesburg and our outstanding guide, Musa, and traveled by plane southwest to Port Elizabeth, a city right on the Indian Ocean:

Although we got to the airport in plenty of time, not all of us made it onto the flight!  Two in our group got bumped to a later flight – victims of South Africa Airlines’ policy of overselling flights and then seating passengers in a first-come, first-serve basis.

A brief one-hour flight and we arrived at Port Elizabeth.  We were met at the airport by our second driver, Fakile, who took us to our rooms at First Avenue Lodge.  This was an excellent place, right on the coast, just across the street from the Indian Ocean.  How’s this for a view:

Our evening was an easy one.  First, we were reunited with our delayed tour members, then we had a nice dinner and met some of the staff from the local office of South Africa Partners.  All in all, a pretty quiet day and night!