Blyde River Canyon

Nelspruit- Pretoria and everything in between

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August 18th 2007
Hi, sorry that there have not been to many updates lately, but to get a faster internet connection around here is not the easiest thing to do, and hence the blogs are a bit further apart. I am going to try to recap the last few days in a nutshell, but let me first say that winter in South Africa is better than summer almost everywhere in the world where i have been. 😊, 25-30 degrees C, ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Gauteng » Pretoria

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more