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HartbeeSpoortDam

I have no time to write my own words about the place scpecially that it needs days to explore it all, and i've been to one place , so I copied this from a website:

Hartbeespoort Dam, North West: Roughly 45 minutes’ drive from Johannesburg and Pretoria, surrounded by the beautiful Magaliesberg mountain range, Hartbeespoort dam, or Harties to locals, has become a hive of activity and is a very popular weekend getaway for the two cities. The beauty of Hartbeespoort Dam is what draws people here - the dam literally cradled in the lap of the mountains - and many regard this as a retreat from the concrete jungle of city living. The 1620 hectare Hartbeespoort dam functions both as a source of irrigation for farms in the area and as a resort, and the peace of the hills and valleys, the warmth even on winter days and the charm of the surrounding countryside, make this a place to restore the soul.

The Hartbeespoort dam offers an array of water sports, a local bird sanctuary, challenging hikes and gentle rambles. There is a collection of restaurants in Hartbeespoort that range from Tan’ Malie se Winkle, a local institution where you can eat to your heart’s content on traditional Afrikaans home-cooked meals, to the local Pick-a-Pancake, which takes pancakes into a new league. This restaurant lies literally in the heart of the Welwitschia Market - a range of African arts, crafts, novelties, curios and other at the fourway crossing at Hartbeespoort that makes a visit here imperative.

We were to a horse farm there in Hartbeespoort dam , we went Quad-biking , horse riding and paintball battles, what was so special about it , that it was in the nature , not a man-made roads or yards.  I enjoyed jumping with the quad-bike up in the air , the most.  An experience I know I would never ever get here in libya.

We had FUN!!

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National ID for abroad libyans

Regarding the National ID for the libyan living abroad, as I read, one of your closest relatives can do the paper work for you and get you an ID , and whenever you come home , you get your ID card, becuase they need your fingure print and blod type.

This is a guess for initial solution, but nothing confirmed yet, and no clear plan is announced.

RHINO and LION Park

RHINO & LION Park HomePage

Really , It's away different seeing wild animals on TV, from meeting them face to face, I was crazy enough to try to tease them , but they just don't care with the people arround

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National ID project in Libya مشروع الرقم الوطني

The government has allready signed the contract, and they started working to make it come true.

every one of us will have a unique ID, Like a DNA, all the paper work through all the different government ministries would be identified with this ID  , your passport, civil records, criminal reconrds, insurance , health, education ,,etc. we should get somewhere, where everything is digitized. 

every new born will have an ID, but he/she will get an ID card when he/she is 16 years old.  I'm not sure If the card would in in both lang. arabic and english , we hope , so we can use it outside.

we will have new passports too, It will be machine readable, when you hear a "teat" then your information are read.

The project cost 50 millions Euro. and the plan that the whole project shall be done by 2010

تم توقيع العقد و بدأ التنفيذ وتعدى المشروع مرحلة الاقتراحات والأحلام. الحمد لله. لكل ليبي و ليبية سيكون هناك رقم قومي فريد لا يتكرر كبصمة الحمض النووي، وهذا سيسهل الربط بين سجلات الإدارات و الهيئات الحكومية المختلفة سواء الشجل المدني و الجنائي و الصحي و الضمان و ما إلى ذلك. بالريط بين قواعد البيانات المختلفة.. تسهل الإجراءات و تقلل من حجم المعاملات الورقية و تسهل مراقبة و تحسين العمل الإداري في الجهات المختلفة. ( قولوا ان شاء الله) ، كل مولود سيحصل على رقم  وطني حيث يمكن استخدامه في التعليم و جوازات السفر إلى حين بلوغ سن 16 سنة اللذي يمكنه من استخراج بطاقة هوية.

جوازات السفر الجديدة يمكن قرائتها آليا.. مما يساعد في تقليص الوقت في الانتظار أمام شباك الجوازات ( فقولوا إن شاء الله  ) المشروع كلف الدولة 50 مليون يورو و المخطط انتهاء العمل منه بالكامل عام 2010. قولوا آمين.

You can get your national Id starting from now

 يمكنك أن تبدأ في اجراءات حصولك على الرقم الوطني.

here is the site, it's in Arabic 

  http://www.nid.gov.ly/index.php  زورا الموقع  

 

The Wonder Cave

The Wonder Cave is an enormous cavern believed to be over two million years old and it’s the 3rd largest cavern in South Africa to be dazzled by up to 14 different cave formations of which 85% are still growing. The cave is still “alive” as almost the entire stalactite and stalagmite formations are still growing. The cave has the best example of a relatively young taluscone ( including plant, animal and other organic material that falls into a cave) Fossil remains of rodents, frogs, lizards, birds and small mammals have been found in the cave.

Location: 

The wonder cave is located in the internationally known valley of Kromdraai.  It is in Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve.

History:

They used to mine for gold down there in the late 19th, that’s how it was discovered, fortunately the mining didn’t ruin the formations there, but the explosions colored the top of the formations with dust. The mining stopped during the Second Boer War and never resumed again. The owner of the land where the cave exists changed three times without anyone knowing about it, until the 3rd owner who did open the cave, and announced its existence. It was officially opened to public since 1991.

Tours: 

Tours are conducted by guides; there are lit pathways, no climbing or crawling. Drinkin , eating or smoking not allowed Going down: It’s a must to visit if you went to Getung, we went down 87 steps and then further 18 meters by lift, it was romantically lighted that made the formations look wooow. There you start enjoying up to 15m high of decorative formations. 

Formations:

Rim stone pools, cave pearls, stalactites, stalagmites, popcorn formations, straw formations, mushroom formation (sometimes feel like it’s a jelly fish) , all these formation in the dard with the smooth lightning gives a romantic view. 

Check the photos ( the lightning in the pics because of the flash)

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Who says you need two sticks to eat sushi?!!

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