Wednesday, October 29, 2008

my trip to the grasslands







I am in South Africa, and today I went on a tour to see the Grasslands. We got in the car and drove out to a place where all you could see is dry grass and some trees! Suddenly some giraffes came walking towards us! They were sooooo tall! Soon we drove further and we drove past some elephants and some rinos! Soon we stopped for lunch and i realized how hot is was. While we were eating, some lions came to the trees near us and watched us. On the way back we passed a leopard eating something.




The Republic of South Africa takes up an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres - the same as the combined land mass of Germany, Italy and France. The coast line stretches for some 2954 kilometres, with lots of beautiful beaches and wonderful sea views. 20% of the worlds gold is mined in south africa. In the population of South Africa 77% of the population are black, 10% are white, 8% are mixed race, 2.5% are of Indian or Asian descent.

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