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| 63 miles South of Gaborone
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| 73 miles SE of Gaborone
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| The Cullinan Mine
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| Mine tailings.
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| Settlement pool (heavily polluted).
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| Intrepid mining Scotsman
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Our leader, the mining veteran Hennie
(And three goofy Argentinians.)
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| Down at the 763 meter level.
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| "Share the Road"
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All is explained.
And it was seriously interesting, too.
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| Kimberline conveyor belt
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| Kimblerlite in conveyor
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| Stuck in the elevator
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| Hennie is not pleased.
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Cullinan's own Big Hole
And it's big!
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| Thomas Cullinan statue
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Nelson Mandela statue
Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton Mall.
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Park Station
From which I nervously toddled around downtown.
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| Grand Johannesburg City Hall
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| City Hall Complex (2)
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Former Old Fort prison
On what is now Consitution Hill
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| Old Fort prison
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The Flame of Democracy
On Constitution Hill
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Consitutional Court complex
On Consitution Hill
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| Constitutional Court interior
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| Constitutional Court interior
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Evocative painting
That dog is not our friend
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| Tambo-Mandela law offices
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| Apartheid Museum
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| Entry Way
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| Casspir Armoured car
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| 1994 Elections Poster: How to Vote
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| World Cup Stadium
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| Hector Pieterson Memorial
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| Hector Pieterson Memorial (2)
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| Janet Davis from Ekala
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| Nelson Mandela's house in Soweto
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| Soweto shanties
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Freedom charter monument
Freedom Square, Soweto
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And then from Johannesburg into Swaziland and Mozambique and then back into South Africa.
Based at the Lukimbi Lodge
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| Farmland just outside Kruger
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Introductory Lion
Snapped on the way in.
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| The view from the back.
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| Scenic Giraffe
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| Two male lions
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| Lion closeup
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| A crash of Rhinos
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| Spotted Hyena, looking very guilty.
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| Spotted Hyena
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| Spotted Hyena in the spotlight
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| African Wild Dog
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| Frisking Wild Dogs
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| Napping Wild Dog
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| Watchful elephant
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| Elephant: Resting trunk on tusk
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| Closeup elephant
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| Disinterested Leopard
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| Leopard prey left in a tree
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| Ranger Andrew on our bushwalk
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| Industrious dung beetle
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| Honey Badger !!
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| Hippos in Crocodile River
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| Buffalo Herd
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| Scuffling Buffalo
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| Impala
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| Kudu (?)
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| Warthog snoozing in a pipe.
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| Wildebeest + Zebra
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| Ostrich
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| Lukimbi Bathroom view
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| Rich SA farmland, East of Pretoria
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| Rich SA farmland, East of Pretoria
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The Union Buildings
Now the Presidential HQ
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Louis Botha statue
In front of Union Buildings.
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Freedom Park //hapo museum
A very afro-centric world view
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| Tasteful memorial to all who died for South Africa
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| Memorial flame.
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| Long walls of bricks, each with a name.
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| Paul Kruger's House
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| Paul Kruger statue in Church Square
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| Palace of Justice
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| Old Government House
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| Melrose House Museum
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| Striking modern tower
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Voortrekker Wagons
Circling the Monument
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| Voortrekker Monument
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| Voortrekker Hero
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| Pretoria from Voortrekker Monument
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| The view from above, to the Cenotaph
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Voortrekker Cenotaph
"We for Thee, South Africa"
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| Heading towards the Blue Train
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| A full bathtub on a train!?
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| Scotsman on Blue Train
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| 55 miles SW of Johannesburg
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| 50 miles North of Kimberley
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| Blue Train rear view
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| The Kimberley Mine
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| The Kimberley Mine
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| The Kimberley Big Hole
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| The Kimberley Big Hole
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Big Hole Detail
Note thehorizontal mine entry galleries.
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| 61 miles East of Cape Town
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| Vinyards, 55 miles East of Cape Town
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| 52 miles NE of Cape Town
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| 41 miles NE of Cape Town
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| 24 miles East of Cape Town
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| 12 miles East of Cape Town
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| East of Cape Town
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| Goodbye Blue Train
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| Cecil Rhodes statue, Old Company Gardens
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| Tuynhuys, now Office of the Presidency of SA
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| Tuynhuys detail
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| Parliament
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| Queen Victoria, outside parliament
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| Parliament (2)
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| Castle of Good Hope
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| Model of Castle of Good Hope
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| Castle of Good Hope
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| Castle of Good Hope + Table Mountain
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| Very grand Old City Hall
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| Waterfront view
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| Table Mountain from waterfront
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| Table Mountain, up close.
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| Up to Table Mountain
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| Top of Table Mountain
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| View from Table Mountain
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| Table Mountain, with hints of the Table Cloth
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| Table Mountain
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| Cape of Good Hope, from above Cape Point
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| Cape of Good Hope, from above Cape Point
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| Cape Point
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| Cape of Good Hope, at ground level
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And then back to Germany.
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