Traveling To South Africa, Enchantment Of The Beautiful Rainbow Country

Posted by fitri

April 17, 2009

1915469 “Welcome to South Africa, the rainbow country, where black and white live in harmony in spite of our dark past,” that is welcome word presented with cheerful face when you are arrived at Johannesburg Airport in this country. Indeed, South African citizens are proud of their calling rainbow country, rainbow country. Africa is a black note at past. In fact, people here are kinds such as black, white, brown, yellow, all have. Like rainbow, isn’t?Do not be surprised, this country that has 45 million population of citizen in corner down the African continent have eleven official languages, all of which is Constitution guaranteed.

There is no apartheid More

White society in power, the first ever apartheid policies. Its meaning, they are black only be second-class citizens, have no rights whatsoever, and always be victims of all haphazardly.

“That’s all the past stories. Since 1994, our peace and all parties feel that there is no win or lose. We all born and live here, so should be together and forget the past,” said one people in there.

Excess there. Precisely because now the country is uphold human rights, the existence of gay people are also guaranteed by the constitution. Something that involved dragging in negative impact, ie, cause AIDS.

Johannesburg often truncated Jo’burg, meaning the gold city. Since XIX century ,this location become gold mine in the local hills. Since then, well, mine is enthralling even hundreds of thousands people from all over the world, throng coming venture. Only in a flash, a gold mine become village, city, and now this, the largest African city of Johannesburg in the south Sahara desert.

Some kilometers in the south of Johannesburg, there is a small town, the name is Soweto.The city also early struggle for independence as well as the movement against apartheid.This is the only city in the world, where two houses Nobel peace winner located in the same way, the former president’s house Nelson Mandela and the residence of Bishop Desmond Tutu Court.

For all of you who will visit to this country, shouldn’t missed visit to Cape Town. City tour at the Atlantic Ocean is given a nickname from the Monte Carlo of Africa. Have a beach with white sand as far as our eyes see, where all kinds of water sports held throughout along the year.

Of course, South Africa is not only capable of presenting history of the colonial memories era. Here is Sun City, the very large tourist area resort, where young children play water waves and adults looking for entertainment in the casino. And is also available Tsung Heritage Site, the missing link fossil found ancient human 2.5 million years ago, believed that as the evolution of connective human primates to modern humans today.

When you are visited to Africa, do not forget to go wild lions in Kruger National Park. This area with 20,000 hectares, as large as Massachusetts state in the United States, here we not only see the lions, but also elephants, tiger, giraffe, buffalo, rhino, and all kinds of wild animals living naturally.
The point is not out of the car and follow the instructions all the parks, we are certainly safe, when we enter to the area.

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