Garden Court Milpark Johannesburg

... view it inside. The last home we went to visit in Soweto was Winnie Mandela's home. She also still occupies her home. <br><br>After visiting all of the homes we ate at a lovely restaurant and I had my first taste of African food on the continent. As my first two meals in Jo'burg had been the very Anti-African cuisine - McDonalds, I was dying to try some authentic African food. I am not an adventurous eater by an sense of the imagination but if I ...

... camera off to be repaired at Nikon House located in Kyalami, right outside of Jo'burg. We successfully managed to navigate there and pick up one of the lenses (Nikon House, the most incompetent business ever, had only fixed one). On the way back the confusing merges on the high way took us the complete long way. We circumnavigated the entire city and finally ended up at Tim's house, which turned out to be only a couple of miles from Kyalami ...

... just crashed out for about 5 hours, seems the sleep on the plane wasn't enough after all. The hostel were staying in is a mansion set in the hills overlooking the city, it used to belong to a Mafia druglord who as it happens was gunned down on the streets of Jo'Burg a few years ago. Two South African women then decided to buy it and turn it into a hostel. Its a pretty cool place and its probably one of the better hostels we've stayed in for a long time, mainly because of ...

... But this takes time, and in the mean time there is bitterness and a lack of money and- of course crime. However, if Johannesberg and its people are given the chance, I think it will develop and become more peaceful, and people more trusting. I'm so pleased the World Cup will be hosted there; it's a real chance for Johannesberg to shine on an international level, and I'm sure it's people won't disappoint. I loved Johannesberg. The energy was fantastic, and it was moving ...

... years now. It's nice to get a bit of competition going, I am very sad to have missed the terminal 5 fiasco. But what greeted us was beyond belief, we were in the middle of a construction site, only three or four planes had landed and yet the queue for passport control wound around the corner. Usually you get some kind of a welcome back home but this time not a word. Things have really changed if our country has lost its sense of humour.

... walk away. They didn't get anything from us and we don't know why they stopped trying but glad they did, we were both a bit shaken up, Meegan was crying and my heart was beating fast but I think because they were just kids, 16 at most, I wasn't actually affraid they would hurt us, we are both pretty big girls, bigger than both of them that's for sure. But it was still scary. There are warnings everywhere and tourists are told to be very very careful in the big ...

... pretty good. We managed to see quite a few animals, but sadly no lions or leopars which is what I was really hoping to see. On the last day we got moved to a 5* lodge with a chimpanzee sanctuary, so that was really nice. As I'm travelling alone and was the only girl in the group doing so I got a room all to myself and everyone else was in twins. I had a massive bed and it was so comfortable - it ...

... colonel, right through the apartheid years. And not surprisingly there was just a hint of racism about him. So after half a bottle of whiskey, and a big political conversation later he offered to drive me round 'Hillbrow'. The worst, most feared, crime ridden area of JoBurg, so we could see "what they do at night". It sounded like a good idea to me at the time, but given that everyone else seemed to think that I would die, I decided against it... Well ...

... so flat... good for walking if it was safe! Houses we've seen so far look huge and beautiful - so much more room than England. Found out at a very long orientation today how to deal with spiders, snakes and ticks at our projects... have to say the ticks are the things that are worrying me the most - sound horrible!! I hadn't even expected those kind of things, prob a good thing 'cos I may have talked myself out of it otherwise! The ...

... distance but the pictures did not really show the cats well. We had two nights of tenting and one night in a lodge at a private game reserve. Again, all of us were roughly the same age and we melded well. I am not sure what all to saw as it was a great experience with really early mornings and late nights. We were up at 3:30 and 4:30 am to see the animals at sun rise and also saw them as sunset followed by food and beer in the evenings. Very enjoyable!