Tuesday, May 19, 2009

LAST DAY

After the Okavango Delta stop, the team headed to Johannesburg Brakpan airfield on the final stage of the humanitarian expedition. This was the day in which we flew most as we departed very early from xarakai to Maun to refuel and the we flew to Francistown to refuel and clear customs. This last leg between these two cities in Botswana, was all over the Kalahari Desert and we all overflew it at low level flight. Even the pilot Eduardo Maya made a touch and go in the middle of the desert!!!Amazing the magic of this african desert...
From Francistown, we headed to Pilansberg in South Africa to clear customs. Suprisingly we delayed a lot on this airport due to the lack of professionalism of the airport staff, the worst of all our stops during 2 weeks!!! Even with this delay, we all took off to Brakpan via GAV VOR where we landed safely. We were welcomed at Brakpan with beer and pizzas provided by Karl Finatzer and we all felt that the mission was accomplished and we were happy but at the same time we were all sad because this was the end of the humanitarian expedition.
New plans are about to come...

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