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On route to South Africa. A brief transit at Colombo (Sri Lanka) Airport.
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In Uganda, we went safariing and managed to see some wild animals but not easy to photograph.
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In Kenya, too, we went to National Parks to safari. Most of the animals that can be easily photographed were at the santuary or purchased.
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Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa. Bacause of the difficulty in going anywhere as Japanese in Apartheid, the Japanese government had purchased the Consul-General's residence with a tennis court and a swimming pool, so that the staffs could recreate on weekends.
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_ds190628151952.jpg Staffs and their family enjoying weekends at the consul-general's residence.
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_ds190628152314.jpg Overview of the city
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_ds190628154849.jpg Mr. Hagiwara our cook.
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_ds190628161140.jpg There were two bus systems, one for the Whites and one for the Bantus. The red buses, for the Whites ran in the city with benches at bus stops. The white or green buses for the non-whites had terminals located outside the town with no facility for waiting people who had to wait in long lines.
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_ds190628162852.jpg The suburbs of Pretoria where many foreign ambassodors lived, were also where the rich people lived in fancy houses.
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5. Johanesburg and vicinity
Soweto, a black township, was located near Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. It was created to segregate the blacks from whites who lived in the city proper. From what I learned, it was created with the intention that the town could be bombed should there be any trouble. The blacks needed special IDs and permits to go anywere.
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_ds190628165905.jpg The guides show the traditional blacks' dwellings before the tour.
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_ds190630155427.jpg Gold mine near Johannesburg. To go in the mine we had to strip and change into their clothes. The shafts were really narrow with low ceilings and very hot. The impression was that it is only sustainable because of black labor, i.e. Black Gold.
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Cape Town is a port city at the south coast of South Africa. It was developed by the Dutch East India Company and now the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Greener and more scenic than Pretoria, tourists love the town. We drove to Cape Town from Pretoria, stopping at a wine farm and an university on the way.
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_ds190630145815.jpg Bartolomeu Dias reached the Cape in 1488, 9 years before Vasco de Gama.
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Kruger National Park is one of the biggest game reserves in Africa. We stopped on our way to Durban, along with Caledon, where there was a beautiful botanical garden with many native wild flowers.
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On the way to Durban, I saw many indigenous houses, one of them in the process of being built. I asked the driver to stop the car and ask if I could take photos. It was one of the most ecological structures I'd seen. Durban was the third largest city on the east coast. It was known to have a large Indian population.
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