**Johannesburg**

The town of Pretoria, from the Union building..look, the gardens span all the way down man!
Fabz in the gardens right below the Union building
The massive Union Building where Nelson Mandela was inaugurated in 1910 and its the same place that Sir Paul Kruger was inaugurated too in 1902 ( he was of Dutch descent)
The Voortrekker Museum

This is the monument to commemorate the Voortrekker family
Intricately designed windows and the marble sculptings below it depicted the entire story of the Great Trek, which is how the Voortrekker ("immigration") family migrated from the Dutch armies to British sand. The whole journey started in 1835 -1852 and it is said to be the largest migration ever from the Northeastern region to Cape Town.
From the top of the world on looking..down on the memorial tomb...as we were so high up, there was this eerie feeling and yups,...we hastily made our way down immediately..
Up on the roof of the building, the view was breathtaking and haha, the entire place was surrounded by traditional Dutch and German farm wagons
This is not a painting, do not be misled, it is entirely cross-stitch...completed beautifully by a group of women who were part of the founders of this museum
We were at the Bruma Flea Market and we actually had to pay a cover charge of 10 rand to enter, daylight robbery man!its just a flea market..but a pretty vast one too!
Wah...trays and trays of the much-sought after jewel...sigh..why do pretty things have to cost so much? There's Mr. and Mrs.Tam, ex-MD of Texas Instruments, choosing their stones
A bit bout diamonds: it is characterised based on 4 criterias, cut,colour,clarity and carat but the "si lais" added another "C"= cost, and De Beers is "the" place for diamonds, and it was in 1888 during the De Beers consolidation. They manufacture diamonds in 4 ways: either the open pit which is mainly done in Botswania, underground minings, coastal which is mainly Namibia or marine which is off the coast of Namibia mainly
The 4 carat diamond, with SI2 inclusions (slight inclusions) and of F colour (very good) and costing round 2 million rand...wah..
Upon leaving Joberg for Cape town, we said goodbye to our darling tour guide, Happiness which is Jaibulan/Diabhi in her own native language. Thank you so much! "Enkohsi!"

Winnie Chan!Here's a toast to your aunt's chain restaurants, its so famous, i even went to have dinner der when i was in south africa!