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see it from the street below. We did manage to go up on the cable car to Sugar Loaf and at the half way point got a little look down on the city. But the upper level was completely fogged in. Matter of fact, on the way down the fog had closed in on even the lower station and our cable car had to make an "instrument landing" there. If it had not have been for the cable we'd never had made it.
We drove around the city, which is a very interestingplace, but it's sort of a strip city in that most of it is compressed be- tween the mountains and the sea so that it stretches for miles along the water. Thus there is a lot of traffic since you have to travel quite a distance to get anywhere. It was very pretty, what we could see of it, and I was much disappointed that we could not get the beautiful aerial view that Rio is famous for. But anyway, in the words of the old poem that I can remember from my youth--"I'd love to sail to Rio some day before I'm old"--and I did.
Two days later it was off for South Africa for a flight to Johannesburg. It was a nice flight and I must compliment SAA for it's food and service. I had the window seat with a South African couple and we got along famously, exchanging experi- ences with each other--they had just been to the states and California--and ideas and opinions on the state of the world. He bought me a drink and gave me his card and invited me to come out to their home to see something other than airports and hotels. Two days later I called him and his wife came and got me and my roommate and drove us out to their home on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It was a spacious bungalow with a two car garage, swimming pool and 5 dogs. So we had tea and cookies and a good visit--just we ladies.
In Johannesburg we stayed at the Carlton Hotel which is the biggest and best in So. Africa and one of the foremost in the world. They have a three story deep shopping center mall un-
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