Vending Paradise in Africa

The hostel where we stayed had beer in the vending machine. I’d seen this before at other hostels. The cost of the beer, twenty rand, is somewhere between $2.50 and $3 depending on whether you exchanged dollars for rand at the hostel or got them out of an ATM. Either way, want a beer at 3:00 AM? No problem. They had chips in the machine as well so that you could get a balanced meal.