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Day of achievements
Jenny had day off and took us first to hire car, then department of education then Home Affairs..Wonderboom airport not far from here had perfect car for our trip, booked it and organised pick up for Monday. Department of education, advised all public schools are all full but contact again day after school starts to see where place has become vacant. This ladies children have moved to Adelaide so she was very exited to help another Australian. So ...
3 weeks of fun & exploration with the Peanolds!
... were plenty of lanterns around as well as a camp fire, but once you went to bed the advice was to not wander to the toilet - a chamber pot was supplied.....I thought it best to just keep it in for the night. The food was spectacular and plentiful and the game was breathtaking. I kind of thought that we might see an elephant or two but was totally unprepared for a herd by the watering hole. Then these were replaced by yet another herd!!!! A magical ...
Cheetah Reserve & the Red Eye Home
... big cats. They literally are just like your cats back home, except they are way bigger, purr louder and could kill you but besides that they are damn similar lol. We also lucked out and got to see wild dogs and their pups, which was cool, and we got to see cheetah cubs. I still cant believe we got to do all of it as we didn’t think it would work out but alas, if you try and ask you never know what will happen J. I can’t thank the ...
Big Fish and other animals
... including a baby :) a hyena and the normal giraffe, zebra, impala etc. it was a good day. the next day (yesterday) i drove up to the blyde river canyon which was incredible, amazing views :)
today i left nelspruit and came to pretoria where i'm staying bang next to the football stadium for the city which is quite cool. tomorrow i'm going to join some friends in sun city (a big amusement park thing) for the last few days before flying home on friday.
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Sterkfontein Cave and Marupeng: Is Evolution Fun?
Outside of Jo'burg is an area of rolling hills and meadows as far as the eye can see. It's so different than the developed, traffic clogged highways of the Pretoria-Jo'burg metropolitan corridor.
In this area is the Cradle of Humankind, named because of the many famous fossils of prehistorica apes discovered in the area. Two of the most treasures are Miss Ples and Little Foot. Can't quite explain the differences between the various evolutionary branches, but ...