We got up early in the morning to take the plane to Johannesburg. As nobody wasn't willing to prepare quickly, I had to urge everybody to get dressed and eat breakfast. After we ate something, we headed to the Cape Town airport. It took only 2 hours to Johannesburg but we couldn't sleep on the plane because the plane kept shaking all the way. Yeah I know I can't hope comfort flight for only 25 dollars.
The place we were going to visit that day was Gold Reef City theme park. As we were supposed to spend most of our budget on buying tickets for the park, we bought some cheep sandwiches and drinks at supermarket.
Gold Reef City theme park
We expected to save some money because before we went there, we read someone's review that the enterance fee goes down as temperature falls. We felt rather cold that day, so we were full of hope on our way to the park, but unfortunately we just found out that the discount option was temporay promotion, only in 2009. So we had to pay full price.
Safari train
After we walked around for a few minutes, we found a safari train which led us to the gold mine. We took the train, and while we were on the train we could see the scenery of the old city. The buildings on the park are designed to mimic the 1880s. We could imagine how the life was.
Park staff on the train wearing period costumes told us the story about the city. The gold mine was found in 1886 and the amount of gold mined from this mine is total 1.4 million tons that is valued approximately 4,500 trillion won.
The Old Mine
After we took off the train, the mine was just in front of us. There was a lift going down for 200m. It used to go down over 3km but it didn't go any further than 200m these days.
It was very dark down there so I felt a bit of fear. Staff wearing miner costume described how miners had worked. I was rather disappointed as there was nothing but stones. After we got back to the ground we felt hungry, decided to have a lunch.
Giant Wheel & Mine Dance
As one of park staff recommended us ride the giant wheel, we headed to the wheel. While we were going there we came across some dancers performing Mice Dance. Staff said the dance expressed a hope for finding gold. I couldn't understand which part of the dance was related to mining, but it was funny anyway.
After the show we finally arrived at the giant wheel. As the carriage we rode went up, skyline of Johannesburg showed up. I can't say it was beautiful but it made me imagine how the city had been developed from the gold rush era.
Dinner
Because we felt like to eat something sipcy and moreover we didn't want to take a risk of trying any unkown, mysterious food that day, so everybody agreed to go to Nando's. After the delicious dinner, we all went back to the hostel happily.
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