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DAY
21 - JOHANNESBURG AND DRIVE TO HAZYVIEW
16 July 2004
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JOHANNESBURG
Johannesburg
or also known as Jo'burg has1.9 million inhabitants and is hereby the biggest
city in South Africa. (If we add the inhabitants of Soweto, then it is about 4
million).
Johannesburg is the heart of the modern South Africa, and the sole reason for
its existence is the gold reef of the 19th century.
We had time only for a short visit (drive through), and our impression was that
the city center is a kind of little Manhattan, and everything looked really awesome...!.
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A Russian-looking church |
A view of the town center (photographed through the windscreen) |
Modern and high buildings in the downtown. |
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Public transport looks well... |
High modern office buildings. |
This was a small demonstration, ladies/girls were carrying banners. |
This was a typical 'smaller
street'. |
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A modern statue: |
Other modern buildings.. |
An 'American-looking' bridge |
Train station |
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| Wide streets, nice cars... | Lot of advertising... |
A township (*) east from Jo'burg |
A funny road sign: 'Selling of anything is prohibited here' |
(*): In South Africa under the Apartheid
Regime, a township was a residential
development which confined non-whites
(Africans, "coloureds" and Indians) who
lived near or worked in white-only communities. The most well-known
township is Soweto (South-Western township),
which is today an overwhelmingly black-dominated city.
DRIVING TO
EAST, TOWARDS HAZYVIEW
In Hazyview an apartment was
reserved for us for one week.
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Looks like an old mine (no more in use) |
We are going to Ireland? Belfast was a small town... in SA. |
Lush pine forest. |
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We were passing highvelds, at 2000 meters above sea level. |
Sheeps were very funny-looking... |
Suddenly we saw 'negative mountains'. We descended from the highveld, and the road was curving among hills. |
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