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Climbing up to the Wonderboom Fort in Pretoria

July 14, 2011 by mcgregorza Leave a Comment

 

The cool and leafy interior of the Wonderboom

Just north of the Magaliesberg range which thrusts into Pretoria is the Wonderboom Nature Reserve, so called because of the huge 1000-year-old Ficus (wild fig) tree growing there.

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