Edyn's African Adventure

Johannesburg is also known as Egoli or City of Gold gold was found in 1886 starting an enormous gold rush. In the south of the city is a small theme park called Gold Reef City. My sister Jaclyn and I took her baby, Sahara down there for the day in mid October. It was a great day overall. We started with Sahara's first ride on a ferris wheel and the view of Johannesburg was lovely. (click on the pictures to enlarge).


After that we walked through the Kid's Animal Farm. Here, Sahara is checking out the Macaws.



We also saw a couple of wallaby..man, are they mean looking. They look like kangaroos but much smaller and darker, and also not as friendly looking.


And while we in Canada had the painted moose a few years ago, at Gold Reef City there was a painted cow. Like probably every other tourist with kids, we couldn't resist getting a picture of Sahara with it.(click to enlarge)