Im back!! and unlike the other times, i decided to post with pics cos the trip was fun!! weirdly, i think its a bit similar to jn's trip to australia.. haha..
DAY 1
weather was cold when we landed.. around 18degC..
Landed at Johannesburg International Airport at around 7am (SA time.. its 6 hrs slower than us)
headed straight for
Gold Reef City.. we reached quite early so had a look around first before going to watch the tribal show..

Then watched them bring some hot real gold from the furnace.. then they had another one, which was 90% gold and weighed 13kg for us to touch! haha.. the tour guide kept encouraging us to bring it home if we could lift it. haha. didnt try lifting it though.

Then we went down to a mine which is not functioning anymore but still real.. rode a shaft down which she said was built in 19__. yeah, cant rmb, but its at least 50 years old. quite scary. wore some helmets and the guys took torches. the helmets are loose! really dark in the shaft if we switched off the lights. cant see ur fingers even if u put then 5cm from ur eyes.

oh, btw, the pics have very little me cos these are all my pics, taken by me.
Then we went to Mabula game lodge!! its like a private safari where we get to ride an open jeep looking for wild animals..
our jeep!

oh, my sis met her classmate on the trip and they didnt know until at the airport! and my sis still said: that person look familiar! haha. and the classmate's cousin is a friend of mine.. haha.. what a small world. 4 PCPS ppl in the tour!
weaving birds and their nest, in the lodge.

Had an evening game.. 5-730pm
dinner at 8. nice setting. but pic blur cos its reallly dark and taken using night mode

DAY 2
morning drive!! cold!! but its super fun!! i wanna go again!
went to search for elephants and lions, so we drove really deep into the area, up some hill, but didnt see any of them!! another jeep saw lions!! wah!!
lunch was at a place called sun emperor restaurant.. chinese food.. not nice..
Went to Sun City!!!
then we had this tour thing.. walked alot! 
from hotel to valley of waves
they have this slide called temple of courage, which is those steep kind of water slide, and many ppl came down with bruises all over their back! so poor thing..
a wave pool, which is MUCH better than the one in WWW.
a lazy river, which was really really dirty.
from valley of waves to Waterworld
its really fun! more later..
actually made alot of plans, many place to go.. but no time!! so in the end we just took dinner(cup noodles!) and went to watch a movie. As it was a tues, there was this promo on, so the tickets to the show was only R15, which is around S$3. watched the devil wears prada with my sis and her classmate. it was nice, but we were all really tired.
they had this arcade there, and there is this racing lions thing which my sis said sg also have but i nvr see b4.. its addictive! haha..

our room


lobby

casino


DAY 3
HELICOPTER RIDE IN THE MORNING!

fun! there was this sudden drop during the ride and i just grabbed my sis hand and left fingernail marks!! haha.. oops
lunch.. nice fish, huge portions.. i think the place is called something fishy
i think this place called wimpy is like the macdonald of johannesburg.. so many of them.. its a BK kind of place..
met the others after lunch to play..
monkeys in the resort

went to the water world and played parasailing and some tube riding thing. cant rmb the name.. its so fun!!
but the parasailing is ex la, S$60 per person for a double..
preparing
in the air..

back..

the tube thing is about S$20, more worth it... we are being dragged by a speed boat then the boat will do some funny funny thing to make us fall.. then when we didnt fall, they purposely make some of us change place to make the lightest person overturn(cos its easiest to make the lightest person fall)! then when she fall its GAME OVER! no fair! the cheaters!
just starting..

little girl who fell and got rescued..

3 of us left..

then we went swimming.. the water is sooooo dirty! visibility is like close to zero! and there are bugs floating around everywhere!! went back to the room to bathe and take dinner, then went to watch 'Let there be rock'. 8.30-10.30pm! so tiring.. its high but i nodded off once.. haha.. not like my sis who sleep until her mouth wide open. then there was this person who left early cos she cant stand it.. the group is so not enthu! hard to be high alone.. but the front row ppl are funny.. and the performers too.. nice show! although the plot sucks if its a musical..
DAY 4
went to lion park!!
very young cub

not so young cub (it bit me while im carrying it! but i look like im biting its ear back.. haha..)

big lions!

and yay! im good at bargaining! there was this one necklace that i bargained the price down from R150(or so) to R40! yay!
voortrekker monument


dark and leads to nowhere! haha..

typical flea market.. but this flea market which we went, we had to pay entrance fee (?!)

bought ostrich eggs

game lunch.. had all sorts of meat.. chicken, lamb, croc, kudu, wild boar, ostrich, and many others.. so many taste horrible!! taste like rubber. yucks!

spent the night at mondior concorde hotel.. the room was small but absolutely pretty and modern..
DAY 5
woke up at 4 to get ready for a domestic flight to cape town..
arrived at cape town international airport at around 8am.. slept through the whole flight.. around 2 hrs..
table mountain!

took the rotair cable car up..
dark part of table mountain.. always covered by clouds..

westcoast ostrich farm!
feeding the ostrich

supposed to have ostrich lunch but bcos its one of those meat that tastes like rubber, i opted for chicken..
dinner at a place called mr chan restaurant. don rmb it..
night spent at lagoon beach hotel. supposed to be 5 star(local) but.. hmm, yeah.. love their bread though..
DAY 6
kirstenbosch(botanical garden) in the morning..




lunch at moyo restaurant..
face painting done there..


cheetah ranch..

some where near the ranch

handicrafts..
from a lump of clay to this... saw him do from scratch. pro! haha..

wine tasting at spier wine farm.. don really like it..

victoria and alfred waterfront to shop.. local cup noodle for dinner.. haha.. everyone bought cup noodles..
DAY 7
seal island cruise!
those are ALL seals!!
photos taken from the bus.. nice scenery!


finally found a macdonald!!
lunch at fish hoek
lobster lunch!

mineral world
scratch patch
penguin colony


sweet!
funicular


cape of good hope.

dinner.. nice! i think.. cos i ate ALOT..
woke up at 6 the next day then flew at 1130am.. reached singapore at 650am, sg time.. 13 hr flight... watched step up and monster hse on the return flight and dragon tiger gate on the departure.. nic tze is so shuai!! but he is cuter in 'invincible duo'!! haha!! the show rocks! and so does 'tian wai fei xian'! must watch!!
tag =))