Why visit Kimberley’s Big Hole?
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Led by our guide, we tuck ourselves like sardines into a rickety lift. With much creaking and trembling, it descends amidst a din of shouting voices and loud rattles for what feels like an interminable interlude. We’re going down 800 metres, our guide grins at us. When we come to a juddering halt and we escape from our unstable confines into a series of darkly lit tunnels supported by steel rods, he admits we’ve only moved 5 metres.
Led by our guide, we tuck ourselves like sardines into a rickety lift. With much creaking and trembling, it descends amidst a din of shouting voices and loud rattles for what feels like an interminable interlude. We’re going down 800 metres, our guide grins at us. When we come to a juddering halt and we escape from our unstable confines into a series of darkly lit tunnels supported by steel rods, he admits we’ve only moved 5 metres.
We’ve just submitted ourselves to the underground mine experience at Kimberley’s famous Big Hole.
We wouldn’t normally advocate visiting Kimberley, which greatly needs TLC. But, hey, sometimes you find yourself passing through. And for us, the Big Hole Museum made our stop worthwhile. You also get to see sparkly diamonds with names like Eureka and Great Star of Africa, in a guarded steel-door vault. And the pear-shaped knocker Richard Burton famously bought for Elizabeth Taylor. How about the yellow octahedron Audrey Hepburn wore in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”?
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