Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

More about Pretoria

Day 362
39398 km sinve the beginning of the journey.

I'm still in Pretoria. The formalities with the visa are not over yet and so I have enjoyed the town and its places of interest.

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Church Square in Pretoria.



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Raadsaal

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Palace of Justice

Mile away in the south - the Pretorius square.

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The Pretoria City Hall was built in 1931, when Pretoria was given status of a town and it was inaugurated in 1935.

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Chief Tswane

Opposite is the Transvaal Museum, or the Natural History Museum, founded in 1892, and has been located in the house in the picture since 1925.

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A full-size skeleton of a whale

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Dinosaur skeletons

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And inside the museum – not any kind of ban to take pictures.

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Fossils – a few million years old

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It turned out that quite a many of the details that were changed last year needed to be changed again. .

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So it took some time but the job was completed in Mazda Service

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