The GPS road tracklog
from Parys to Vredefort Dome & back
from 2018/10/29 to 2018/11/04
Parys again,
Vredefort Dome
Monday, October 29 I left on a tour to Vredefort Dome, the site of
impact of a giantess meteorite. At 15 km of the end of the tarred road
by a corrugated gravel track, I end to the information center. Of course
I was the single visitor. An employee explained to me in front of the
model that the meteorite touched not vertically the ground but with an
angle of incidence such as it pushed in front of it, with an
extraordinary force, the rock ground probably in fusion and constituted,
rims, concentric circles. The impact would have taken place between
Vredefort and Parys; of course non-existent it there from away billion
years. I could have traversed the track while jolting, but the nose on
the site without vision of in-high. I considered it regrettable that
there is no tour by helicopter! I returned to Parys where I
arrived shortly after noon. I found a bivouac at the edge of the river
in a residential district.
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The GPS road tracklog
from Parys to Johannesburg
from 2018/10/30 to 2018/11/01
Johannesburg, Protea Hotel Parktonian
Tuesday, October 30 I moved towards Johannesburg, at 1800 meters of
altitude. At the entrance of the urban area I stopped at the Apartheid
museum which explains the rise and fall of segregation in South Africa.
Unfortunately No Photo, I stole some from there. Then at the end of the
morning I was going to install me for three days in Protea Hotel by
safety for my truck. In the afternoon I bought a tour in Jo'burg and
Soweto, Wiki,
here,
place of the terrible repression of the student demonstration
on June 1976 told by the Hector Pieterson museum .
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Johannesburg-2
Wednesday, October 31 I left on a tour of Braamfontein district while
starting with Constitution Hill close to Protea Hotel and
beside the Metro City Building replacing too old and exiguous City Hall.
The hill is occupied on the one hand by Old Fort, 1892, which was used
as prison during the apartheid with extensions out the walls whose some
buildings were used for the construction of Constitutional Court of
South Africa. Two world personalities were imprisoned in these places,
Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Then I went down from the hill to
immerse me in two museums. Initially Wits Art Museum is dedicated to
classical, modern and contemporary African art. A little further on at
the corner of Yale Rd & Enoch Sontonga Ave Origins Center
is devoted at the origins of humankind. Alas arrived at the crossroads I
sought the museum hopelessly the nose plunged in Lonely-Planet. As usual
providence came to my help under the aspect of a charming young lady who
asked me whether I sought Origins Center which is in the buildings of
the university. God recognizes his people! In the afternoon I returned to the
hotel by throwing an eye to Nelson Mandela Bridge as well as to
Neighbourgoods Market.
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Johannesburg-3
Thursday, November 1 I visited the center of Johannesburg as well as
Newtown. It was initially City Hall renovated in 2012 of which I visited
the interior with a benevolent agent of security. Beside a building
great-height is getting dilapidated throwing in the street its glazing.
It is alas not a single case in Jo'burg. Library Square gives access to
the library of Jo'burg of which the interior is populated by student
working or playing on their computer! Of-here beyond remain some still
inhabited buildings dating from the time of art-deco. I took height with
the elevator to go up to the Top of Africa which propelled me to 50
stage to make a panorama of Jo'burg. While leaving I warned the building
High Court whose hall is populated by lawyers under discussion. Then I
entered Newtown to make a tour of a set of restored old buildings and
sheltering either of museums or theater. Then I returned to the hotel
before a violent storm falls down on the city. The reputation of the
city is bad consequently I made use of Compact Sony to take pictures
while leaving it my pocket surreptitiously. I sauntered without bag.
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The GPS road tracklog
from Johannesburg to Magalies
from 2018/10/02 to 2018/11/02
Magalies
Friday, November 2 I went northwards to visit, in Maropeng, the Cradle
of Humankind, wiki,
here. Under the tumulus of entry an initiatory journey expects the
visitor on his origins of million years. For the despisers of the theory
of the evolution by Darwin, for the Vegan followers, the scientific
evidence of the origin and the evolution of humanity is overpowering.
But finally, the ideologists of all obediences are irremediably
perverted by shamans with theories without scientific base.
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The GPS road tracklog
from Magalies to Pilanesberg, Manyane
from 2018/10/03 to 2018/11/03
Pilanesberg-1, Manyane gate
Saturday the 3rd and Sunday, November 4 had spent to track the wild
animals in Pilanesberg NP with two nights in the giant camp-ground of
almost 100 sites supplied with block-ablutions very clean. The table of
my tracking to the animals was not extraordinary although Pilanesberg is
famous for its fauna; for example the booklet gives 50 lions, 220
elephants etc. Sunday, November 4 I left as of 6:30 and I traversed 75
km in 7 hours!
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The GPS road tracklog
from Pilanesberg-2
from 2018/10/04 to 2018/11/04
Pilanesberg-2
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