Balalaika

... . Johannesburg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg) is the largest city and wealthiest province of South Africa. I stayed at the Balalaika Hotel and Crown Court (http://www.balalaika.co.za/). From here I was able to walk to the Nelson Mandela ...

... . Upon the recommendation of our faculty advisor, we went back to Lan Kwai Fong and went to dinner at Balalaika, a Russian restaurant. Balalaika is a Russian stringed musical instrument (kind of like a guitar) with a triangular body. The restaurant was ...

... stop and presumably went to the next carriage. One of the guys was playing a guitar and the other what looked like a Russian Balalaika,the lute-like stringed instrument with the triangular body that I think I have mentioned before. By the time we got back ...

... Mozart, though other composers are represented as well. During my walk I heard flautists, violinists, a small string quartet, a balalaika group, a Mozart-era "living statue" who played tuned drinking glasses, and two guys playing Bach's "Tocatta and Fuge ...

... , then enjoyed a fine meal at Bizou up on Elgin St in Soho, and finished off with Russian cocktails (make mine a 'Lenincolada') at Balalaika in Lan Kwai Fong.  Fortunately, this city is made for both partying and lazing - we had a quiet morning ...

... time by now and we descend to Mozartplatz and find a bench seat to eat our lunch. Then it is towards the Domkirche where a Balalaika quartet is performing under the main arch. They are very impressive performers and we buy two CDs. We continue past the ...

... artist, Nikolai Siadristy made these ridiculously small items that each is under a microscope  in order to see.  There is a balalaika (type of guitar) where the strings are 1/40th the width of a human hair.  And, which when looking at it, ...

... Spanish Riding School) in terms of its size and the number of museums it contains.  Found some Russian buskers playing Balalaika; fantastic.  At the start of the day we were offered tickets to a concert at the Schonbrunn Palace Orangery which ...

... on Nevsky Prospekt.  You had to walk downstairs below street level.  There was live music with a viola and a balalaika.  They played what I imagined to be traditional Russian music.  For dinner I tried the pelmeni.  It is a ...

So far Jo'burg or Jozi has been great to us and we have been taking it easy. For the first few days that we have been here we have taken NO pictures, visited NO sights, and gone on NO tours!  Johannesburg and most likely South Africa as a whole is ...

e visited Soweto and Nelson Mandela's former house. Former Nuclear facility now used for recreation. Gold mining slag.  ...