Day 4-5 - Jul 25-26 - Johannesburg
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We arrived in Joburg around 06:00 and went directly to bed at the Holiday Inn.
From here, we began the safari!
previous - Frankfurt, Germany
We took it easy that day and did a guided tour of Joburg, Soweto and Pretoria, the next day
(while waiting for Chris and Vaughan to arrive from Australia). They arrived around
18:00 on the 26th and we had supper together in the Holiday Inn restaurant.
Together again after another eight years!.
We went South African Airways to Joburg - TVs in every seat
We arrived in Joburg
The Holiday Inn looked inviting, arriving at 6AM after 11 hours without sleep
A Joburg sunrise
A Joburg street (bars on the windows - Detroit?), during a guided tour of Joburg, Soweto and Pretoria the next day, while waiting for Chris and Vaughan
Native natural remedies in a shop we were allowed to enter in Joburg
We (the tour group) took food for two families in the poor section of Soweto (20,000 people without jobs)
One of the 11 water locations in "the shacks" (the poorest section of Soweto where approx 20,000 people lived)
Nelson Mandela's home in Soweto
View from the legislature in Pretoria - a little different than Soweto
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