Watch: Jason Vanporppal is greeted with hugs after landing in Joburg

American skateboarder Jason Vanporppal has landed in Johannesburg, and the welcome was a warm one, Joburg Etc reports.

Vanporppal flew from Cape Town, less than a week after touching down in the Mother City. In a video posted after he arrived, the caption reads ‘I’m officially in Johannesburg!’ 

South Africans know him as the skateboarder who rolled from Kampala in Uganda to Cape Town over 106 days. He covered more than 5 500km to raise funds for a skatepark in Uganda, finishing in May.

He returned to Cape Town on 4 November after a 30-hour journey from Los Angeles via Istanbul and Johannesburg.

He plans to spend the rest of the month in Joburg, where he wants to skate, run, meet locals and eat his way through the city.

Watch his arrival below:

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