African Safari - Flight & Dubai

It is Sunday 24 Aug 2014 as I lay in bed starting to write on this blog. In 2 days I will leave for my Trip of a Lifetime.
This African Safari is 3 weeks long.  We start at Capetown in South Africa and go up thru Namibia, Botswana and then into Zimbabwae before heading home.  It will be around 25 days in length.

It will be a long trip to get to South Africa..... I leave at 1025 on the 26th Aug., fly the following legs:
Edmonton to Vancouver       1.5 hours
Vancouver to Seattle             2   hours
Seattle to Dubai                   15   hours
Dubai Layover                      8   hours
Dubai to Cape Town            9   hours
Total is 35 hours, and since we went over the N. Pole, the sun did not even set!

Dubai was great as Tim flew business class and that provided a hotel room and taxi free of charge so we all took advantage of that and took a trip up to the 124th floor of the tallest building in the world! It is called the Burj Kaleef.

Burj Kaleef view from 124th floor in Dubai.  In 2014 this was the tallest building in the world

The blue part of the tower is where you go to look out from.