Travel Route

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This is a broad visual representation of my travel route. The following is a rough travel itinerary:

Flight to South Africa:

• First, I’m flying from Chicago to Minneapolis for a few-hours layover.
• Then, I’ll jet out to Amsterdam where I’ll be staying for three nights. (Speaking of which, I need to figure out my hostel situation ASAP. I’ve found that booking a room for 5 people this late in the game is pretty difficult. My fingers are crossed…)
• After exploring Amsterdam for a couple of days and recuperating from the transatlantic flight, I’ll fly to the southern hemisphere.

Three months in South Africa:

• I’ll be staying in Johannesburg for most of my time in South Africa.  
• However, NU has planned a group trip to Cape Town and Kruger National Park. 
• Still in the planning stages: weekend trips to visit Pretoria, Durban, Lesotho, Swaziland, etc 
• In addition, a group of us are staying an extra week to do some personal traveling after finishing our internships. So, I might end up traveling to neighboring countries Botswana and Mozambique during my time in Africa. We’ll see what happens. 

Return trip back:

• Around mid-June, I’ll (sadly) fly back to New Jersey via a short layover in Amsterdam. 

I still need to work out some details, but that’s basically where I’ll be traveling. While I think I’ll enjoy my destinations, I know getting there and back is going to be tough. My flight time from Johannesburg to Newark, NJ, will be around 20 hours. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a plane that long.  For comparison, here are some long flights I’ve experienced before:

• Newark, NJ to Rome, Italy: 8.5 hours
• Newark, NJ to Sao Paulo, Brazil: 10 hours
• Newark, NJ to Tokyo, Japan: 14 hours 

Jet-lag, here I come!

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