Ngiyahamba ePitoli!

For the past week I have been in Pretoria facilitating Life Skills training to the latest class of PCVs. Pretoria is 10 hours and a world away. It takes 2 public taxis, a ride on the metro, and a ride on the new Gautrain! Follow me on my journey.

The first leg is from my village to town. Taxis run pretty frequently along the road through my village in the morning. It takes about 30 minutes to get to the taxi rank in Nqutu. 

This taxi rank in Nqutu will take you to a number of towns around KZN. Unfortunately there is no taxi to Pretoria so we must go to Germiston first. There is also no schedule so you must wait until the taxi is full. Sometimes that is 10 minutes, sometimes that is 3 or 4 hours!

Your typical South African public taxi

Five-and-a-half hours later we arrive in Germiston, a suburb of Johannesburg. From Germiston we board The Metro. 

Not all of the doors close . . .

A couple of stops later we arrive at the Gautrain station. 

Quite a nice train! We need to transfer trains once but after about an hour we arrive in Pretoria only 3 minutes from the backpackers!