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Our trip to South Africa was extremely fortunate and an awakening experience. We, admittedly, didn’t know about the past issues of the country and with its present situations, one, like the usual tourist, would not know about any serious problems with still exist. We were staying at one of the better hotels Johannesburg offers the thousand of tourist visiting every week, which most definitely does not show the strife of the locals of South Africa.

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our time in Johannesburg. We had a chance to visit with my husbands friends Mark and Betty. They have a home near a dam. It’s about an hour from Joburg. When we arrived, I found out that they live by the Dam, which is what South Africans call the body of water which the dam creates. I know, confusing right?  The next day we when to Gold Reef City , which is a fun place. My husband had some clout and scored us a Gold Reef Golf Cart for us to drive about in. I felt like a queen. I had lunch after an almost overwhelming morning after visiting the Apartheid Museum. The museum is a must see and its so well done. It was so beautiful and I was able to appreciate how all sides of the situation was presented. I liked how they mixed it all up with audio visual, written word and pictorial. It was stunning to say the least. We spent well over 3 hours, and we would’ve spent more time there is we didn’t have a previous engagement.

Back at the Dam, we were treated to 2 wonderful days of sunshine with which we ate and drank wine-coolers. We boated and drank more wine. We Barbecued and drank more wine. Our Dam friends has a spa, so we spa’d and drank more wine. I think we needed one extra day with my husband’s friends just to dry out, but we managed to get back to our hotel room just to rest! By the way, South African wine is really very good.

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