So we left London on the 27 Sept bound for Miami Florida, We arrived to Durban like conditions of sweltering humidity and high temperatures. But of cos these were happily welcomed after another dismal summer on the mud island....We quickly located the accommodation kiosk and the head wasted no time putting his expertise of excellent hostel selection to work. The Tropics hostel, Miami South Beach! Being new budget backpackers we bypassed the the famous yellow American cabs and headed straight for the bus terminal! So starts our first adventure, catching a bus in a foreign country (at least they speak English, or should we say American?) After a quick 15 min wait up pulls the bus we with the excitement of teenagers we throw our packs onto our backs and line up for the bus....only to find we do not have the correct change. The bus only takes exact fare! Guy flutters his eyelids and the bus driver crumbles, he lets us pay for 1 and on we clambered backpacks, sleeping bags, day-packs and jackets! We are on the way! Little did we know that on this painfully slow bus trips we would encounter more characters than a Disney movie. Julian having been to Miami knew that South beach was not going to be like this. Guy on the hand, was like a dear in the headlights! But its not long before things start looking up....Guy breathes a sigh of relief!

We arrived at our awesome backpackers (oh yes, 25m pool included) well done guy. No time was wasted in dropping off our bags and hitting the pool to cool off our now very fair London skin! We spent a very lazy hour by the pool before exploring the streets of South Beach....the street cafes and the ice cold beer of cos. Saturday night in Miami........so we kick started our world tour. We crawled into bed at 3am after an epic 24 hour day; beers, planes, pool, sun and clubs....we were exhausted. Guy managed to show me just how exhausted he was by falling asleep in the queue to 1 of the clubs, standing up whats more!

Sunday, after a wee sleep and some quality time poolside we headed for the beach. We slowly walked 16 blocks stopping occasionally to enjoy the warm water while constantly admiring the scenery! Until we arrived at Nikki beach club Miami beach. Awesome outdoor club famous world wide.... We decided this was most certainly a place we could kill sometime in and headed straight back to the hostel to crab our dancing shoes..... We were cooked dinner by our new Aussie friends Jill and Adam, who then decided it would be rude not to join us.... Unfortunately as we got in the car the rain arrived, so our NIKKI BEACH CLUB experience was short loived. After a short pub crawl home we called it a night.

Here is where our first travel mistake occurs. So I went to the safe to get my mobile phone to set an alarm for our 5am wake up. Only to find the safe does not open! The reception tells us the guy who can open the safe will be in at 5 am and will wake us up open the safe and we can be on our way! This of cos did not happen! So long story short....we miss our flights to PERU! But lucky guy turns on the charm like a light switch once more and the airline does not charge us for this mistake and books us on a flight for the next day! Disaster averted!

written by  roadtrippinthesphere on November 20, 2008 from Miami Beach, United States
from the travel blog: ROADtrippin the SPHERE
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