Flights Booked

It is more real than ever when flights are being booked. Whilst I had booked my China and Japan flight over a month ago, I still had not book my flight to Africa. Though in hindsight, I should have done that first - given it is the World Cup!

In this experience, Flight Centre was useless. The first quote the agent gave was $5,000. In the age of the internet, did she really not think a twenty something year old (a spot on Gen-Y) would have checked out ticket prices on line? Having said that, it must be STA Travel's policy to assume that their clients had, because that was the question their agent asked.

I ended up booking it over the internet for $2077, flying Lufthansa via Frankfurt. In fact, all my flights have been booked over the internet with Zuji. So far, they have always been the cheapest available option - even if comparing with other sites. So let's just hope the e-ticket will go through in tiny little Victoria Falls (well the Falls won't be so tiny).

So it has been locked in and I am set for Africa. Flights and accommodation have been booked. Now all I have left to do is pick a Kilimanjaro outfitter, book the Zanzibar hotel, and apply to the organization of choice for a few weeks' worth of volunteer work. Almost sorted till September 2010!