Some pictures from our fantastic trip to
South Africa
December 1997 - January 1998

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The blue line marks our route:
We started in Pretoria and drove all the way to Cape Town;
then we flew to Zimbabwe and came back by train (via Messina) to Johannesburg.

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The Blyde River Canyon
 


 In the Kruger Park
 
 

In Swaziland
 


In Hluhluwe National Park
 


Drakenbergs Mountains - on the border to Lesotho (see map 2)
 


Oribi Park - close to Durban
 



Tsitsikamma National Park (in the south - close to Port Elizabeth)



Eli testing ostrich eggs and with a turtle.

Eli with his parents at the Swartberg Pass
 


Tasting wines in Stellenboch, view of Cape Town from the Robben Island
 


The entrance to the prison where Nelson Mandela spent many, many years.
The Cape of the Good Hope (at the very south of Africa).

Eli with some new friends.

Now we go to Zimbabwe....

Victoria Falls are on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. From the falls we
travelled by bus to Hwange National Park, then continued by train to Bulawayo,
and finally back to South Africa.
 


The spectacular Victoria Falls seen from Zimbabwe and Zambia
 





The Hwange National Park
 


Back to South Africa: this is Soweto.
We spent half an our in the home of this lady.
Wish that one day she will be able to see the picture............. 


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