Dec 6, 2015

Cape Town 20151029

Cape Town is a beautiful city that offers many diverse scenery.  These photos are taken on the tour bus.

Suburban view with mountain
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Urban view with mountain
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Beach view
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Vacation homes facing the ocean, with mountains in the back
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Dense housing at mountain side
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Slums
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Did you notice the satellite dishes on the rooftops?
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Bloemfontein 20151028

Lunch was at a Chinese Restaurant in Maseru, Lesotho, at a very short distance to the border to South Africa.  We crossed the border and arrived at Bloemfontein in the afternoon.

Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa, so it has a bunch of government buildings.

Our first stop was National Museum.  The museum contains anthropological, historical, cultural, and natural articles.  We saw artifacts from early humans, rock art, pottery, presentations for different tribes in South Africa, displays of colonial life, a collection of all imaginable stuffed animals and birds, animal skeleton and bones, and geological collections.

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Anglo-Boer War Museum and National Women's Monument
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Handsome gentleman and pretty lady, as they say in Chinese
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Bloemfontein cooling towers
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Fourth Raadsaal
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National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre
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City Hall
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Poelanong Mosaic Mural
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Hoffman Square
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Cheers to our professional local tour guides Heather and Anthony, and our dedicated drivers John and Patrick!
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Nov 28, 2015

Maseru, Lesotho 20151028

You can tell that Lesotho is not a popular tourist destination.  Our morning stops were mainly government buildings and a square.

Lesotho Palace of Justice
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Lesotho Court of Appeal
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State Library
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BBQ
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Public phones and fax services
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Hats for sale
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Message on Constitution Drive
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Old post office
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New post office
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The square that we are not allowed to photograph, according to the custodians (even though two groups of police said it was ok to photograph).
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Happy Mosotho
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The message on the back of her T-shirt
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Besotho
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It was so hot, lots of ladies use umbrellas
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Costco?
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AIDS is a major health problem here
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Catholic Church
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Board games on the street
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The game was played with stones and bottle caps
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Umbrellas of different sizes and colors
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Mountains arround Maseru
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