We flew the 17.5-hour flight from New York City on South African Airways. My first picture of Africa was the winding road below. The road just wound over a flat, barren plain and seemed to go on forever.

First view of Africa taken from the airplane. A snake like road in a vast, uninhabited plain.		 South African Air plane that flew us from JFK, NY to JoBerg, SA

These beautiful little ducks were swimming in the pond at the Kapanong Hotel, Johannesburg.

Ducks in the pond at the Kapanong Hotel, in Johannesburg were we stayed the first night.