I saw the most amazing sight at some ungodly time of the morning flying into Johannesburg. I watched the sun rise as the world wakes.The sky was a deep indigo blue with a line of golden pink on the horizon. We were flying South & I was one the left side of the cabin looking due East. Everything changed as I watched. First a lake of pink, I thought it was Flamingos. Then the sun came up over the horizon as a bright flaming ball of red & gold too bright to look at. The sky changed to every shade from blue to translucent jade. It happens every day- how amazing is that?
Looking down there were necklaces of rivers & lakes, some huge, some very small. Then came long escarpments, mostly seemingly quite shallow, all very straight.They were beautiful shades of greys & blues, shrouded in mist. They looked like wavelets or rippled sand on the beach.
Johannesburg is a vast megalopolis regimented over the plain. There are large delta like areas with houses built on the flood plain. In the distance is the city centre of skyscrapers rising out of the surrounding habitations. It is just like something in a Marvel comic. As we come into land there are huge malls & industrial areas.
Africa awaits.
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