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Keen Kempton Park
... where the earliest human remains were found.
South Africa:
Capital: Pretoria
Major Languages: IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%
Population: 50,500,000
Currency: South African Rand
Life expectancy: 42.37
Literacy rate: 86%
Religions: Many
New foods I tried: Ostrich ...
Homeward bound
... and honest ... both with the people and meet, but more importantly ... with myself.
However ... now that this phase of my travels is coming to a conclusion ... seeing new and different places around the world ... I feel the need to re-model this mode to one of some more reserve and refinement.
No ... I will not close up again and be too reserved ... it is important to be open ... but with too much openess comes too many possibilities for mis-interpretation ...
One Language, Different Dialects
A weekend of experience. It was almost the best so far because of everything I was exposed to.
Friday night I went to and event called Conversations with Ariel Dorfman, followed by a panel with Ariel, John Kani, and Nadine Gordimer. All three are playwrights whose works have focused on struggles in South Africa, race issues, as well as human rights issues in general.
John read a piece from one of his newer plays. Boy was it powerful. A monologue of ...
Reorganization
... the block to the Keg and Kingfisher again. The crowd was better, service was better and there was no smoking. Our waiter even presented me with a US Flag to wear at the games. After the game we headed back to the hotel bar and traded some stories from previous adventures with Ray and Steve. I wish I could include their stories but this blog is PG-13. Sometime around 1:00AM we were subtly chased out of the bar by Neill the bartender ...
Awesome!!
... an African Longleet but the best part was getting to go in with the Lion cubs...I loved it!!! They had been rejected by their mothers and were gorgeous.
We then fed the GIraffe who was so gentle when she took food. I offered the food to a couple who had none. I wished I hadn't as the women kept screaming everytime the poor thing went near here...stupid idiot!!
Next we headed a few hundred metres to the crocodile farm and got to hold a baby ...
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Other places to stay in Centurion
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Centurion Lake Hotel
1001 Lenchen Av North, Centurion | 3 star hotelfrom $159 -
Protea Hotel Centurion
Cnr Gordon Hood & Hendrik Verwoerd Ave, Centurion | 3 star hotelfrom $74 -
Leriba Hotel And Spa
245 End Avenue, Centurion | 4 star hotelfrom $188 -
Kleinkaap Boutique Hotel
87 Jim van der Merwe Street, Centurion | 4 star hotelfrom $147
