22 May 2013

South Africa 2013 - Flights

South Africa 2013

This year's trip was purchased in February, during a KLM sale, so the tickets for each adult were "only" £600 each, child £570 and lap infant £35. I won't go into too much detail as this route is well covered, not least by me!

 
Route map, by www.gcmap.com

05/05/13
KL1502
NWI-AMS
PH-JCH

My aunt had knitted jumpers for the children, so we picked brightly coloured ones, to help keep them visible. However, we didn't realise that orange is the Dutch national colour, and we were travelling just a couple of days after the King's coronation!

Some pre-flight views on the F70 at Norwich:





05/05/13
KL591
AMS-JNB
PH-BQL

This was a daytime flight, so we had to make sure we had sufficient entertainments for the children.







Sleeping, midway through the flight

Remains of meals

On arrival at JNB we noticed a crowd of people waiting to greet the Orlando Pirates who were returning after winning an African Champions' League match.



08/05/13
JNB-DUR
MN623
ZS-ZWA

Our flight down to Durban a few days later was uneventful.

Snakes on a plane



08/05/13
DUR-JNB
MN612
ZS-ZWD


At Durban airport








19/05/13
JNB-AMS
KL592
PH-BQE

Windows fail


Matty in his onesie



For Jonas



Play area at the restaurant on the AMS viewing terrace


Tam said this was one of the best EUR2 she spent.




20/05/13
AMS-NWI
KL1511
PH-KZI


Back to Europe :)




2 comments:

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Unknown said...

Very nice TR especially the "snake on a plane " thing

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Léonard (EastAfspot)