Sep 27: Back to Joburg

At long last - jet lag settling.  Alan has a full blown cold poor thing, so he's pumping himself full of drugs and not missing out on anything.  Even managed to get the camera fired up so he could capture some impressions of the vistas from the car on the drive back to Joburg.

Could be Australia couldn't it? Except for the mines 

And the shack towns

Back in Joburg, we stored the suitcases and grabbed a Tour of Joburg, Soweto, Nelson Mandela's home and the Apartheid Musuem.  It's certainly not a holiday destination, which locals freely admit themselves, so thought we'ld make sure we have a look around today as we won't be coming by this way again!

Mandela's humble abode:

The startling  soccer stadium:

Soweto vista:

 Outside the Apartheid Museum.

Joburg scenes.

What's missing from these views are the Tailings stacks from the old gold mines: the city scape is littered with them ... Rather like Broken Hill, they're just not very good photographic subjects!  

Flying off again in the morning, to Nairobi.  A 4 hour flight.  And so the adventure begins ... ...