We started things off in November when meeting up with Jay's sisters and a family friend in Dubai, UAE. After 10 days, they flew back to Sri Lanka but Jay and I headed off to the island of Zanzibar. From there we took a ferry over to Dar es Salaam and stayed in Tanzania for a total of eight nights. Next, we flew to the capital of Madagascar and toured the country for a total of an additional ten nights. After that, we left Antananarivo by flying to the African island of Mauritius. We had a one-month stay at the beach in Flic en Flac.
We then departed Port Louis on the Norwegian Dawn and headed here to Cape Town in January. The cruise was a total of 12 nights and in during this time, we visited the French Island of Réunion, two northern points in Madagascar which we'd not seen, and several ports in South Africa.
Now we're on the Atlantic Ocean but we'll soon head back to the Indian Ocean. It's fitting to review our winter now as exactly one week from today, we will be going to visit Durban, South Africa. As it is nearly 1300 KM (800 miles), we have air tickets. We're staying there for nearly a month before fly back to Canada from Johannesburg in mid-March.
All the locations have been interesting and this trip has been educational and personally rewarding. All this proves that we have finished three of our four months of this winter. Well, here is it actually summer. Lots of tourists were out and about today in the fantastic, dry 31°C heat of Cape Town today!
