South Africa
Two Trips in the Spring of 2023
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| The ticket and entrance to the well-done Apartheid Museum is a little jolting. |
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| Looking towards the Cape of Good Hope. |
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| For many issues, progressivism was commonly on display. It seems overturning apartheid forcefully swung the country to the left on social issues. |
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| The world has only 6 floral kingdoms. But one of them is a small area surrounding the Cape of Good Hope. |
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| A protea |
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| Table Mountain (Cape Town) |
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| An African penguin |
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| The main Joburg prison which held both Mandela and Gandhi. Gandhi spent 21 years in S. Africa and was often jailed. |
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| Are the tourists particularly naive in Cape Town? Or the scammers particularly convincing? |
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| I enjoyed fast go-karting in a parking garage over a mall. |
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| The Kirstenbosch botanical garden was the best I ever visited. Went twice. |
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| I took a small guided tour of Soweto, the main township/ghetto which resisted apartheid, and the home to Mandela. |
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| Art deco in Cape Town is a thing. |
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| A hyrax |
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| The Constitutional Court. Made on the site of, and with bricks from, the jail that held Mandela and Gandhi. The judges purposefully sit below citizens' feet walking outside the windows. |
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| Inside an old gold mine. |
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| Soweto |
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| Hiking up Table Mountain |
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| Cape Town's two main art museums had artists creating pieces "live" in the exhibition halls. |
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| Succulents camoflouged as rocks. |
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| Shake the old flower and the ants swarm out of the nest. |
Itinerary: 2.5 weeks in Johannesburg and Cape Town, with a day trip to the Cape of Good Hope.
Animals seen: eland antelope, albino squirrels, rock hyrax, dolphins, seals, ibis, African penguins, Egyptian geese, marabou storks, African fish eagles, cormorants, a diving kingfisher, and a sea otter in my hotel's swimming pool.
