Sunday, February 25, 2007

EN ROUTE


sunset, leaving NYC


Sal Island, Cape Verde Islands, after plane refueling


JOHANNESBURG


tea our first morning in Johannesburg



Apartheid Museum







the view from the Apartheid Museum toward downtown Joburg
(yes, that is a roller coaster)


in traffic on the way to the Joburg Airport
SOWETO


Black Madonna in the Regina Mundi Catholic Church
(site of many political meetings during the 1976 Soweto Uprising)


see the peace sign?


armless Jesus, Regina Mundi Catholic Church


the great divide, Kliptown


shacks in Kliptown


the main drag, Kliptown
(each port-a-potty is shared by up to 6 families, each of whom have a key to the lock)


portrait, Kliptown


Porto shows us the toilet where Mandela "enjoyed himself"



Orlando West, the nicest neighborhood in Soweto


Soweto tag


drinking in the shebeen



dinner in our shack, Orlando East


hanging out with our hosts, Amy and her sons



our shack in daylight





with our guides, Eunice and Spongila, in Eunice's shack
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK





giraffe


jackals


the smallest antelope in the park


genet


wild dog (rarest mammal in the park)



wildebeest


wildebeest and impala


rhinos


zebra


buffalo




elephant








baboons



vervet monkey mother and baby


leopard on the road


hiking with Rodney and Dingen


Kruger horizon on the bush walk


Kruger sunrise



mud pools



Rodney digs a water hole in the "dry" riverbed



Kruger sunset on the night ride