Jo-burg adventures continued..

The next day of our stay in Johannesburg, we went on a tour of the Apartheid Museum. http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/ The museum went into extensive detail of this history of apartheid from its beginning to its final destruction in 1994. It was very interesting to see, and we had a guided tour throughout the entire museum. When we first stepped inside the museum we were forced to separate randomly into “non-whites” and “whites” and go through different entrances. Then as the tour continued we were brought together and see the different videos from that time period and information about the era.



After lunch at Gold Reef City Casino where I won 40 rand! (around 6 bucks) we went to Memorial Johannesburg Prison where Nelson Mandela along with other political prisoners like Ghandhi were kept. The living conditions in these prisons were horrendous and prisoners literally had a bucket to pee in and a bucket to drink water in both in the same tiny cell they had to share. If they were lucky they had an actual toilet that had no privacy from the other prisoners.


showing off my winnings!

Later on in the week we had a tour of Pretoria, one of the three capital cities in South Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria We visited the Union Buildings and took lots of photos of the lovely gardens outside of the governmental buildings. While we were taking pictures and minding our own business, a giant group of Asian tourists noticed our existence and decided to start taking pictures of all of us with their giant cameras and extensive lenses. They did not speak a word of English but were still frantically trying to get us to pose with them and give the peace sign in all their photos. It was pretty hilarious. They then noticed Chioma, the only African American of all of us, and started to treat her like celebrity status. Every single tourist of the group (there were around 20 of them) had to pose with Chioma and take zoomed up pictures of her faee for their photo albums. It was pretty hilarious but I eventually had to rescue her from the paparazzi team!




gorgeous purple trees that can only be found in Johannesburg!




Chioma getting mauled by asian tourists!