We managed to score a 4 berth sleeper compartment all to ourselves, what luxury. It even had door (!), that locked (!), in India you were lucky to get a curtain! So we kicked back, we drank our wine and chewed on our biltong as our hotel room on rails carried us through the wine fields, through the mountains, through The Karoo to Kimberely. The draw here was to see the remnants of the diamond mining industry that was happening in the early 1900's. All that is left now, once all the privately owned claims had been conglomerated, is a huge hole in ground. The largest hand made hole in the world, apparently. Well, I haven't seen a larger one to disprove their claim. We stayed within "The Big Hole" complex which has been done out like a small town in the early 1900's, so that was quite good fun poking around the old shops, the mock up pub and especially the skittles alley. We wished the prices were more like the 1900s.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Kimberely
We took the over night sleeper train to Kimberely which was great fun. Compared to trains we took in India, this train was like the Orient Express. 
We managed to score a 4 berth sleeper compartment all to ourselves, what luxury. It even had door (!), that locked (!), in India you were lucky to get a curtain! So we kicked back, we drank our wine and chewed on our biltong as our hotel room on rails carried us through the wine fields, through the mountains, through The Karoo to Kimberely. The draw here was to see the remnants of the diamond mining industry that was happening in the early 1900's. All that is left now, once all the privately owned claims had been conglomerated, is a huge hole in ground. The largest hand made hole in the world, apparently. Well, I haven't seen a larger one to disprove their claim. We stayed within "The Big Hole" complex which has been done out like a small town in the early 1900's, so that was quite good fun poking around the old shops, the mock up pub and especially the skittles alley. We wished the prices were more like the 1900s.
We managed to score a 4 berth sleeper compartment all to ourselves, what luxury. It even had door (!), that locked (!), in India you were lucky to get a curtain! So we kicked back, we drank our wine and chewed on our biltong as our hotel room on rails carried us through the wine fields, through the mountains, through The Karoo to Kimberely. The draw here was to see the remnants of the diamond mining industry that was happening in the early 1900's. All that is left now, once all the privately owned claims had been conglomerated, is a huge hole in ground. The largest hand made hole in the world, apparently. Well, I haven't seen a larger one to disprove their claim. We stayed within "The Big Hole" complex which has been done out like a small town in the early 1900's, so that was quite good fun poking around the old shops, the mock up pub and especially the skittles alley. We wished the prices were more like the 1900s.
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