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South Africa album cover. 307 photos.
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Kruger National Park album cover. 130 photos.
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My route driving through South Africa. For the three countries of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana it amounts to 18,000 km of driving and 3000 km of buses.
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A baby giraffe walks right up to me and rubs noses. Lions Park.
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Mmmm ...
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My favorite zoo picture, 2 white rhinos set against the Telkom tower and buildings of central Johannesburg.
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A beautiful cat. Laying down with Sihle, a 3 year old cheetah, for a drink of water. South Africa.
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With a baby cat, Lion's Park
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Baby lion
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A nice piece of architecture, 15 Alice Lane Towers. The decline of central Johannesburg in the 1990s led to Sandton becoming the new financial and business center.
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A cool building facade, Katherine & West, of Sandton district.
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Clothing market in central Johannesburg. I am the only non-black fellow walking through multiple areas of downtown, though I see tourists at specific sights. One seller is surprised "You're not scared?" "No, but I am careful.
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Chewing a bowl of mopane worms, eaten by southern Africans as a source of protein. Due to cooking I find them crunchy when I expect juicy and squishy. I will look for the raw version in future travel.
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Zebra Taxis ready to go, Sandton district.
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An unusual art piece. It details city blocks of Johannesburg from an aerial persective. It is made of stones, ceramic and Venetian glass. Created by Gerard Marx, 2013.
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A closeup of Gerard Marx's work, Vertical Aerial: Johannesburg.
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I love hippos. Despite their big size they are capable of running up to 30 km/h. They are unpredictable, highly aggressive, dangerous. Of all animals on earth, they take the most entertaining shits I've ever seen (google: hippo shit).
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Giraffes and zebras of Pilanesberg National Park, a park in the crater of a long extinct volcano. My introduction to white rhinos, hippos, elephants, wildebeests, impalas, warthogs, baboons, and many other creatures.
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Megalodon is the shark I am looking for, but I'll settle for its more recent cousin, some Great Whites. Natural History Museum, Pretoria.
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Downtown Johannesburg, looking north, from the 50th floor of the Carlton Center.
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Downtown Johannesburg, looking west. Gandhi square just left of center, his 21 years in South Africa where he developed his political views and leadership skills.
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Entry ticket to the Apartheid museum, explaining a system of racial segregation enforced by law until 1994.
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Taking a look at Nelson Mandela's house, where he lived from 1946 to 1962, before being sentenced to 27 years of prison. Soweto.
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Visions of the leopard, graffiti under a bridge. Johannesburg
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Kruger National Park is an area of 19,485 sq km and one of Africa's more famous game reserves. Due to its excellent infrastructure, inexpensive vehicle rentals, I get a car and drive its southern and central roads.
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I find six spotted hyenas. Four surround my tiny car. It's a different experience looking into their eyes at ground level.
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Spotted hyena scoping out what the others are doing.
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Spotted hyena
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White rhinocerous
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Roadside with two white rhinos. Of an estimated 20,000 white rhino population, Kruger National Park (KNP) is home to about half.
