We arrived into Jo'burg at about 7 in the morning after a night of games and Chinese films (you can guess who was doing what) on the plane. We had decided to go to Pretoria to find a place to sleep off our overnight flight. We had a lunch of mealie pap and stew before kipping for a few hours and going in to explore. Pretoria is a very laid back place, small with a few suburbs and the highway turning into the main street (outside our hotel, we subsequently discovered, though we still slept well).
We spent the next morning wandering around the beautiful gardens outside the Union Building before heading off to Sun City (so Si could fulfill his dream of playing the best golf course in Africa). I went into Pilansburg National Park to do a game drive while he did that and we had a harrowing night when our accommodation fell through and we were left driving after dark, which NO ONE does here unless they have to. It all turned out well and we spent the next morning at the excellent De Wildt Cheetah Research Centre on a guided tour learning about cheetahs and wild dogs and other endangered animals here. We then headed east to the mountains . . . E
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