Marching To Pretoria

We also visited one of South Africa’s seats of government, Pretoria. The branches of government are in three different cities with the executive branch in Pretoria. There we saw hundreds of beautiful jacaranda trees in bloom. The flowering trees in pretty shades of periwinkle purple came from Australia and South America.

There were tourists and school groups all over the terraced steps and gardens leading up to the government buildings. After taking pictures there, we ate lunch at The Blue Crane Restaurant in the Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary. The blue crane is South Africa’s national bird. Then we spent the night at Monte Casino, where we had a fantastic dinner at the Meat Co. The interior of the casino looks like an open-air Italian city, just like the entrance of Paris looks like an outdoor French city in Las Vegas.