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Lions Park, Johannesburg what is new?

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What’s new in Lions Park In Johannesburg? We went to Lions Park on Sunday. We live nearby, and we couldn’t help noticing some changes happened after unfortunate accident with American tourist. First-people are more careful; more people prefer going with a tour guide in a special vehicle. And really this is more fun. Your have a tour guide, he gives you interesting information, meet people, socialize. Second-I don’t know if it is a time of the year or just a coincidence, we saw less people than usually in Lions Park. Our tour guide showed us the lioness, responsible for attack on a tourist.On the first picture on the left she is looking at you. It is difficult to figure out what triggered lionesses’s behavior. As far as I was able to see, quite few people in the past open windows to make a better shot. May be just wrong place, wrong time. May be the American tourist used a flash and lioness thought it was a weapon. But it is good that people are more careful now. Our tou
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Groot Constantia Turned Out 333 Years! Happy Birthday!

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Cape Town is a beautiful city and coming to this city for me is always like a breath of fresh air. Among all cities in the world Cape Town has an advantage of being a big urban city with many skyscrapers and have small areas, like villages in a city with quiet living. Among places like that is Constantia Groot, which is not far from the center of the city, but it is peaceful and quiet. Just take a wine route R41 and you are there. Most of all I like history connected to this place. Imagine yourself in 16th century, sailing on a ship, coming to the unknown country. When I go to the Cape Point I always imagine the storms in this place should be severe, the winds are almost unbearable. People who came into this country were very strong and adventurous, otherwise they would not survived here. Legends… They make the place alive. Funny, isn’t it? When you remember the place you also remember the stories surrounding it. The smell of history makes Groot Constantia like an old lady-
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How to Pack for Your Next Travel?

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Subscribe in a reader How to Pack for Your Next Travel? I am not the biggest expert in packing as well as anybody else, but during my travels I worked out several rules for myself and would like to share them with you. Start packing by doing a check-list. Rule N 1. There are no rules. Do what works for you and only for you in current situation. If you want to over pack, do it. Let’s say you plan to go to a theatre or a fancy restaurant or to go dancing, then take those shoes, your favourite dress and your evening going to be a success. Then you can hire a car and your baggage will travel in a car. It also depends on where you are going. You bought a ticket on cruise-lovely! To be honest there is not that much to do on a cruise except to go sightseeing, dancing, swimming in a pool and sitting in a restaurant. Then a lot of clothes will be very handy. Also etiquette requires you to be dressed for the evening in a proper dress, not sports wear or jeans. On a smaller ship you migh
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Street Art in Johannesburg (new street art I discovered on weekends)

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Subscribe in a reader Street Art in Johannesburg started to become more and more popular,probably because city council realised it attracts tourists. You can do a tour or two on street art in a particular area.Most popular tours are the street art in Maboneng and Newclaire. Street art was not even interesting to people something like 25 years ago.Only the works of Banksy in UK,who made street art the expression of underground culture with political flavour, made street art interesting to other people and generated a lots of other graffiti writers and artists, who either copied Banksy or developed their own style.Banksy subsequently became known and recognised for his work in 2010 and his name was on a list of 100 most influential people by The Time Magazine. I became inspired by this topic after I read blog of Omo and Eulanda from their blog/site heydipyourtoesin.com. Hey, guys, this one is for you! It took me long time to accomplish, but eventually it was like I have to make this
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Subscribe in a reader One Sunday in Maboneng. What is Maboneng? I heard about this place but never been here before. They say it is a new buzzing area in a heart of Johannesburg. The meaning of the word “Maboneng” is from Sotho- “place of light”. Maboneng precinct is not so big, just couple of streets. What I like here that you can park your car and walk around. Historically, not so long ago this area was decaying. One of property developers Jonathan Liebmann discovered it and thought of a possibility to regenerate one of the central areas of Johannesburg and create a place to promote arts and culture. He teamed up with an architect Enrico Daffonchio and they created Arts on Main in 1990’s. Arts on Main is situated in 5 connected warehouses and combines some of the best SA galleries and artists: Goodman Gallery, Seippel Gallery and also studios of artists like William Kentridge, Michael Subotzky and Kim Lieberman. I was very surprised to know
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