It is not an exaggeration to say that Johannesburg and its surrounding suburbs are the economic engine that drives much of the industry in Southern Africa, as well as being the major hub for travel into this part of the continent. However, the city offers far more...a cosmopolitan city for cuisine, culture, sport and much more. Find out all that the City of Gold has to offer by taking one of our Johannesburg day tours!
Johannesburg City Tour
South Africa 's largest city remains it's financial and commercial heart. It's in this fast paced city that the country's radical political and social - formation is most evident - this is the 'Rainbow Nation' at work.
Drive through the upmarket suburb of Houghton.
View the jarring contrast of Hillbrow and it's downtown living conditions.
Visit Constitution Hill - home of South Africa 's Constitutional Court and site of the Johannesburg Old Fort Prison (closed Sat & Sun).
Soweto - acronym for South Western Township , is home to over 2 million people who, despite living in crowded and chaotic conditions, have a tangible sense of community, which the ordered walled northern suburbs lack.
Visit the Hector Peterson Museum - discovering the cause of the riots.
Pass the Mandela House, with the option to visit this small museum (own account).
Visit Regina Mondi Church , site of many underground meetings fo the then banned political parties.
A reconstruction of Johannesburg during the Gold Rush era, Gold Reef City is home to a Victorian fun and designed to replicate an era of the Gold Rush Experience.
An organized tour, 'Jozi's Story of Gold', takes you through the many attractions on offer..
Enjoy a performance of gumboot dancing routines, devised decades ago by mine workers.
Take a trip down an old mine shaft and get a sense of the tough working conditions miners had to endure.
Watch molten gold being poured - all that earth moved for such little return!
Apartheid was dismantled a decade ago but its horror lives on, in a stark white building in Johannes-burg. It is the Apartheid Museum, and it takes visitors on a journey you're unlikely to forget.
Inspiring journey from the dark days of 'whites only' privilege, through to Nelson Mandela's historic release.
Documented film snippets, texts, sound clips and live accounts recapture life in the old South Africa .
An exploration of imposing museums and monuments, dedicated to tracing South Africa 's extraordinary history. Pretoria is also known as the ' Jacaranda City ', for its beautiful purple lined streets when the jacaranda trees are in full bloom.
A visit to the Voortrekker Monument, a memorial to the early settlers.
Kruger Museum - private residence of president Paul Kruger of the old Transvaal Republic.
Visit Church Square , surrounded by buildings dating back to the turn-of-the-century.
The Union Buildings - an architectural masterpiece and scene of Nelson Mandela's emotional inauguration as president in 1994.
A visit to the Pilansberg National Park in search of the 'Big Five' and other animals, before continuing to one of South Africa 's most popular theme resorts - Sun City .
Guided closed vehicle game drive within the Pilanesberg National Park, in search of the 'Big Five' and other animal species.
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