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Harry the elephant I rode

Africa Week 3 - Hakuna Mthatha

March 30th 2011
The Garden Route & J-Bay Day 15, Wednesday, March 9th, I went for a morning visit to the Knysna Elephant Park. The park is a preserve to protect and rehabilitate elephants that used to roam free in the area. The Knysna forest used to have thousands of wild elephant but development and ivory poaching has left only three in the surrounding forest. The park is home to 12 elephants. I had plann ... read more
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South African Flag 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
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