Pretoria

Well, after yesterdays partial recovery it seems a cough may want to come and bug me (pun intended!) Also the camera started to play up, I could take pictures and they would show up in the camera preview mode, but I could not download them. That’s still work in progress!

Last night as Robert was halfway through cooking on the braai we heard thunder in the distance, this slowly moved in until we had a full blown thunderstorm, luckily most of the food was prepared in time! Unfortunately the pictures of the braai and the storm are stuck on the camera.

Today we headed off to Pretoria, one of the 3 capitol areas of S. Africa.

Our first stop was the Voortrekker Monument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voortrekker_Monument), as I’ve done before I’ll leave references for some of the sites we go to rather than write out all the history)

Robert and Lyn at the Memorial

Close up of the Memorial

The Memorial Commemorates the treck of the Afrikaans out of Cape Town after the British got upset with them, this led to the formation of the modern S. African nation. The Memorial was finished in 1949.

The Trekk is depicted in both stone carvings around the inside of the building and

Tapestry panels.

Looking at the Union Building from the Memorial

We headed down from the Memorial, through Pretoria to the Union Building. which is the administrative centre of government.

Centre Part of Union Building

Statue of Nelson Mandela

Voortrekker Memorial in the Distance

Union Buildings Gardens

Pretoria is famous for its jakaranda trees. we were lucky and caught them in bloom.

Tomorrow we are heading of to the wilds, rumour has it we will be without WiFi or cell phone coverage for a week. If I can post I will, if not I’ll try to put a single entry in when we get back.