Johannesburg has an enormous airport! Many places in Africa are most easily reached by first flying into Johannesburg and then catching another flight to the final destination. That makes this airport the entry and exit port for a lot of people visiting the continent. That also means that there are a lot of people waiting a long time for their next flight. These facts make this airport a good place for lots of souvenir shops: here is Stanley interacting with one of the displays of traditional drums and dolls!
See him down by the drum on the left?
At the Johannesburg airport they also have a very tall digital clock counting down the days to the next World Cup soccer tournament. The World Cup will be played in different towns in South Africa June in July of the year 2010. The day he landed there were 849 days to go until kick off!
Everyone in South Africa is very excited about it. Stanley started to get excited about it too! He liked soccer a lot and was a fan of the New England Revolution soccer team back home.After several hours Stanley's flight to Gaborone, Botswana was called. This plane was much smaller than the one that had brought him! He had arrived in a plane with four jet engines and now he was getting on a plane with two propellers.
And he had flown all night to get here, but now just one hour to go!
During that hour-long flight he enjoyed the view from his window. This smaller plane flew closer to the ground and he could get a good look at the scenery.
They took off over Johannesburg which is a very big and modern city. They crossed over the northern border with Botswana. He saw the reservoir where the water for the country is stored...
... he saw the roads and farmlands and houses... and finally they landed in the capital: Gaborone! He had arrived at his destination!
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