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South Africa and Lesotho Day 13: On Our Way Home

7 March 2026 • 10,143 km / 6,302 mi (map)

Alas, all good things must come to an end. Today we took the first of two flights that will bring us home. It’s 12 hours from Cape Town to Paris. We were treated to views of the Namib Desert, the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and another plane flying beneath us in southwestern France.

Cape Town International Airport, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
above Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
above Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Aerial view over the vast Namib Desert in Namibia, with pale pink-and-tan sand dunes stretching into the distance toward dark rocky mountain ridges, all beneath a clear, deep blue sky fading to haze at the horizon.
above the Namib Desert, Namibia
A high-altitude aerial view over the vast Namib Desert, showing pale, hazy plains crossed by dark dry riverbeds and rocky ridges, with low isolated mountains on the horizon and reddish dune fields visible at the bottom.
above the Namib Desert, Namibia
An aerial view from an airplane window of an arid, mountainous landscape near Khowarib, Namibia, showing rugged ridges, dry riverbeds branching across reddish-brown terrain, and a hazy horizon in the distance.
above Khowarib, Namibia
An aerial view from a high-altitude aircraft over snow-capped mountain ranges near Tighboula, Morocco, with brown valleys, scattered low clouds, and a low haze layer fading into a deep blue sky toward the horizon.
above Tighboula, Morocco
An aerial view looking down on a white airliner flying below, trailing twin white contrails across a hazy blue expanse of land and faint clouds far below, near Mimizan, France.
above Mimizan, France

Tomorrow’s flight will bring us home to Seattle. We have comfortable seats, but without a window, so there will be no travel post for that flight.

Thank you for following along. I hope you’ve enjoyed this little slice of South Africa. We certainly did and we are eager for our return.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, to Paris, France · 10,143 km / 6,302 mi
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