March 26th,

Today we awoke at 6 am to leave at 7 am to travel through Hartbeespoort  crossing along the Dam and heading to SUN CITY, for a day at the Palace Hotel. Wow!!! "Reginald" Les is dressed to help guide on our adventure. We stopped for breakfast at "Pick a Pancake" -

 Along the way we saw examples of African arts and crafts, the mining industry, the sunflower fields and the beautiful mountainous landscape.

 Finally, Will said those hills in front of us that we see now will soon lead us to Sun City , the Pilanesberg area of SA.

 We soon entered the entrance to this "lost city" which houses  the great Palace Hotel and what a grand entrance that surrounds the hotel.

Upon entering the hotel we look up at a glorious ceiling of color and a lovely arrangement of flowers encased in glass in front of us.

The first thing we did was head for the pool, swam, had smoothies, and then walked around and shopped until High Tea in the dining area - When shopping we toured the hallways seeing sculptures, paintings, tunnels and waterfalls. It was amazing because everything used to create this palace was made from materials that came from Africa. 

Les bought Shann a beautiful necklace and earrings here made out of Tanzanite, a rare gem that turns blue when polished and can only be found at the base of Kilimanjaro.

Here we found Shaka, the famous Zulu warrior

"Reginald" Les, explains the Pith hat to the help at the Palace

The wonderful high tea in the Palace dining area:

Shann tried the Lapsong tea and at first it was fine but had to change later as felt a bit overcome by it.

Shann tried the Green Pear later and it was fine!!

At this point, Les decided to go pick up my beautiful gift from him, the tanzanite jewelry and he had me open it at the tea and put it on - lots of pictures were taken and I was so overwhelmed.

Then flowers were delivered to all the ladies at the table. It was a fairy tale day and evening.

Everything was scrumptious except for the menacing bees

And soon we are off to explore the area in our cars and do a self guided safaris through a nearby park.