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Today i was up early to fit in all the essential tourist activity in. I headed off to park station where I came out of the wrong exit & spent the next 30mins looking for hop on hop off bus. For anyone that hasn't been to Johannesburg, park station is not in the nice part of town! Lots of people begging, random holes in the street, dilapidated buildings etc. anyway eventually found the bus which proceeded to drive round many more dilapidated buildings! In fact I was surprised how run down Johannesburg is. bus tour narrator said it was because the city grew up as a temporary town for the gold rush & buildings were never meant to last but now here we are.....the buildings which weren't falling down tho were quite pretty, a real mix of architecture to reflect the mix of cultures.
I hopped off the bus at the apartheid museum, was quite interesting but I only had an hour so couldn't see everything. Quite startling some of the things that went on only 30 yrs ago.
I then went to Soweto which was just as run down as central joburg, only here there were few buildings,any homes were just shacks as a result of the government just dumping the residents there. Another not so nice part of town!!
I arrived back at the hotel around 5, jut in time for a quick drink before dinner. Have just had to repack my case, I have another 8hours on a bus tomorrow!!
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