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      • 1. South America
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      • 1. The Middle East
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      • 4. Arabia
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      • 6. East Asia
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      • 8. Australasia
    • Part III: End of the World
      • 1. Intermission
      • 2. Melanesia
      • 3. Polynesia
      • 4. Micronesia
      • 5. Return to SE Asia
      • 6. Marooned!
      • 7. The Final Frontiers
      • 8. The Journey Home
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  • About
    • The Odyssey Expedition
    • Graham David Hughes
    • Country Checklist
    • Why WaterAid?
    • FAQs
  • Odyssey Blog
    • Part I: Man of the World
      • 1. South America
      • 2. The Caribbean
      • 3. Central & North America
      • 4. Europe
      • 5. West Africa
      • 6. Central Africa
      • 7. Southern Africa
      • 8. East Africa
    • Part II: Top of the World
      • 1. The Middle East
      • 2. North Africa
      • 3. Central Asia
      • 4. Arabia
      • 5. South Asia
      • 6. East Asia
      • 7. Southeast Asia
      • 8. Australasia
    • Part III: End of the World
      • 1. Intermission
      • 2. Melanesia
      • 3. Polynesia
      • 4. Micronesia
      • 5. Return to SE Asia
      • 6. Marooned!
      • 7. The Final Frontiers
      • 8. The Journey Home
    • Epilogue
  • Media
    • Odyssey Books
    • Odyssey TV
    • TV Interviews
    • News Coverage
    • TED Talks
  • Souvenirs
    • Passports
    • Photos
    • Videos
    • GPS Records
    • Newspaper Clippings
  • Heroes
    • Team Odyssey
    • The Americas
    • Europe
    • Africa
    • Middle East
    • Sponsors
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Day 279: The Highest Pub in Africa

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:11 October 2009
  • Post category:Lesotho/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

06.10.09: I actually didn't want to go all the way to Durban – I wanted to get off at a place called Pietermaritzburg. I heard you could get minibus from…

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Day 278: Sunrise

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:10 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

05.10.09: Crikey, I could have done without this early start, but it's all power for the cause. Today in a move guaranteed to get me another 500 clicks on this…

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Day 277: The Nuns of Gaborone

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:10 October 2009
  • Post category:Botswana/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:1 Comment

04.10.09: Best blog entry title of The Odyssey? Up at 6am and down to the nearby service station where one goes to cadge a lift to the border. Was waiting…

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Day 276: A Break for the Border

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:8 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

03.10.09: A little water to help slacken my brains outer membrane and I shook off my hangover. Andy and I compared notes from the previous evening, but both our notebooks…

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Day 275: Five Quid A Page?!

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:4 October 2009
  • Post category:South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

02.10.09: The British High Commission in Pretoria is a little tricky to find – I wandered about for about half-an-hour before I realised that the building with no sign and…

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Day 274: Cool Run-Ins

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:1 October 2009
  • Post category:Namibia/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:2 Comments

01.10.09: So… into the tenth month on the road and I finally, finally reach South Africa, what had, in my original estimation, been the half-way point for this adventure. That…

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Day 273: A Gold Star And A Jellybaby

  • Post author:Graham Hughes
  • Post published:30 September 2009
  • Post category:Namibia/South Africa/Southern Africa/The Odyssey Expedition
  • Post comments:0 Comments

30.09.09: It was a comfortable night on Tashia's couch, interrupted only by the once-an-hour shrill of my mobile phone waking me to change the video tapes that I was uploading…

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  • Part I: Man of the World
    • 1. South America
    • 2. The Caribbean
    • 3. Central & North America
    • 4. Europe
    • 5. West Africa
    • 6. Central Africa
    • 7. Southern Africa
    • 8. East Africa
  • Part II: Top of the World
    • 1. The Middle East
    • 2. North Africa
    • 3. Central Asia
    • 4. Arabia
    • 5. South Asia
    • 6. East Asia
    • 7. Southeast Asia
    • 8. Australasia
  • Part III: End of the World
    • 1. Intermission
    • 2. Melanesia
    • 3. Polynesia
    • 4. Micronesia
    • 5. Return to SE Asia
    • 6. Marooned!
    • 7. The Final Frontiers
    • 8. The Journey Home
  • Epilogue

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