The Best Kept Secret in Johannesburg.

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The Best Kept Secret in Johannesburg.

I also did not know. This place is just only 20 min from me and 20-30 min from Krugersdorp, or 15 min from very busy Shopping Centre Cradlestone and Silverstar Casino. When you turn on the road towards Forum Homini Hotel and Restaurant (by the way- very good restaurant, gourmet food, and situated in a picturesque setting, but I will tell you all about it in my next post), you are entering Cradle of Humankind world. From this road you can go to Sterkfontein Caves, but today we will go together with you, my reader, to a completely different place.

I don’t like to talk too much about places, may be because I am more visual person, and I like to show pictures. However, Google does not like it. Google likes more text in our blogs, that’s why my blog will never be profitable. Because I like pictures more. How you can describe the place, without showing you all the beauty, the colors, and the pure nature? Big city, Like Johannesburg, becomes too much for me at the end of the week, so I started to look for places where you can breath with fresh air, preferably never poisoned with serious portion of petrol, oil and stress. Place, where you can sit quietly and practice your photographic skills, in a company of likeminded people, reflect, meditate, refresh, kick out the stress of my work and thoughts about what was done, what wasn’t. Oh, and I’ve forgotten, it is a place where I can wear my weekend clothes too. What? It is important to look after yourself. Well, I am just kidding.

On that day, I was actually looking for a trout farm and some piece and quiet, and if I could entertain myself with some beautiful landscape and make some pictures- that would be a bonus too. I was lost; appeared for the best. When I turned off the road to the first available place where I though I would be able to ask for directions, I never knew that I will find such a beautiful place. It was a trout farm, now turned out a park. “Nirox”. People, who sponsored this park, wanted to turn it into something like a gallery, where they will sell sculptures. There are a lot of big sculptures scattered throughout all the beautiful places. In a far away corner of this park I found “Singing Stones”. If you place your hands in front of the stone you can hear electronic musical sounds.Some sculptures were very unusual. Oh, and there were chairs, which reminded me "The Game of Thrones".Usually I did not see too many people at ones, there were may be 20- 30 cars parked. Some of them were photographers.Enough talking, please look at my photos.

Our host was very cordial, invited us for a cup of coffee. Since then, each and every weekend I was trying to come to see the place. But that is not all. In my next post I will tell you about the trout farm. I did found that trout farm, and much more!

(To be continued)

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