Cape Town, South Africa
Plush and half-empty, one of Emirates finest planes took us from Tokyo to Dubai in style before a five hour layover in a surprisingly drab Dubai airport gave us a sobering dose of sleepless reality. Dubai to Cape Town was somewhat less luxurious and twelve hours on a rickety old plane, packed to the rafters with seat-breaking fatties, felt like a lifetime of clock-watching! Over thirty hours after leaving Japan, we finally touched down next to Table Mountain, exh...