Tuesday, March 21st was Human Rights Day holiday so 20 Area Office Missionaries took the Gautrain (we live in Gauteng province which is pronounced Hautang), a high speed electric train, to Pretoria. The train goes underground in Jo'burg and above ground beyond the city. From the Pretoria station we took a bus to the National Zoo. It was a nice zoo, but we like the Jo'burg zoo better. The wild animal parks are even better, but you only see native animals (if they are visible!) at the parks. We had lunch at the restaurant at the zoo and then returned to Rosebank Mall area to pick up our cars. It was a warm and fun day.
Voortrekker (Pioneer) Monument outside of Pretoria. We need to go back to see it as it is a monument to the Afrikaners (Dutch) who left Cape Town to escape the British.
Zebra with Pretoria in background.
Okapi from DR Congo
Charging Rhino - we were glad there was a sturdy fence!
From the train station as we wait to go home.
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