Pembury Plaza Sandton
84 Katherine Street Sundown, Alexandra, 2146, (Formerly Park Plaza) Sandton, Gauteng, 2196, South Africa
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On the path of the "Struggle" In Soweto
... no other. 20 miles from Johannesburg, an estimated 4 million people live in Soweto, while the official figure is 1.3 million.
It really is a symbol for all South Africa has been through and for what it is becoming, but visiting there is a very sobering experience as you see first hand how people are still living in corrugated tin shacks (sometimes as many as 6-8 people in a space no bigger than a pop up camper) and when you visit many of ...
Back to South Africa, after 4 day trip to S
... over the edge of the falls, when the water was low. So, that stopped the lighting of the Falls – when one day, 4 dead elephants were found at the bottom. The hotel is right beside the Falls. We are in a national park and right beside the hotel are monkeys, giraffes, elephants, zebra and deer, only minutes from the hotel. There is a lovely pool and bar right outside our room. Haven’t tried the pool yet, but that may come. Temperature is 38 ...
Guided tour definitely well under way!
... rich areas, where the original gold and diamond merchants lived. We passed Soccer City, Loftus Vervelt Stadium (home of the Blue Bulls) and Ellis Park in Joburg. These are huge stadiums where the world soccer cups were played and also rugby. Overall, the area holds about 20% + of the population of South Africa. The Province is called Gauteng and has over 9 million people living there. Economically, it is the powerhouse of South Africa and ...
Halfway across the world
... starts), we had fun working through her Portugese phrasebook. Soon after the plane reached cruising altitude, she did a 180 and went all emo on me. She started going on about how she broke up with her boyfriend of 6 years because he was cheating on her (for the last 4 years!) and that she
was in the ***** at work blah blah. She obviously did not take the hint when I put on my headphones to watch a movie; oh no she just kept going on and ...
Robbed!
... telling her she could only use our face paint to decorate her 20-year-old stomach if I could do the painting. After a moment's consideration, I decided this was probably too much like sexual harassment, and that Yvette would probably drop a dime on me with Amy anyway. So I graciously surrendered our paints with no quid-pro-quo.
We were way early at the stadium, in time to see both teams come out to ...



