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BOOK EXCERPT: The Cango Tango: Adventures in South Africa’s oldest tourist attraction

It’s time for a day trip to South Africa’s first tourist attraction, the Cango Caves. The mysterious limestone chambers full of glistening stalactites and stalagmites and strange formations proved irresistible to people in the early 1800s, even though the entry fee was five rixdollars (the equivalent of R2,300 today). Tourists came from all over the

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