Johannesburg City Guide



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Tours & Safaris	Johannesburg City Johannesburg, locally known as Egol, The city of Gold, is the economic powerhouse of Africa. It is not a city that most people plan to spend much time in, but as it is home to the busiest airport in Africa is a coty where people have to spend a day or two. It is well worth the time. The city is vibrant, colourful and a unique blend of the first and third world, perhaps more than anywhere else on the continent.			Places To Visit Accommodation Car Hire Places to Visit Museum Africa Apartheid Museum Cradle of Humankind Gold Reef City Newtown Cultural Precinct Sun City & Pilanesberg Half Day Pretoria City Sightseeing Tour Afternoon Tour to the Apartheid Museum Rise to Freedom - Soweto and Apartheid Museum Half Day Sightseeing Tour of Soweto Gold Reef City Theme Park and Casino Afternoon Tour to Lesedi Cultural Village
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General Information	Museum Africa Founded in the 1930s, and originally the Africana Museum, Museum Africa is Johannesburg's major history museum, telling the story of the city from its foundations on gold to the present day. There are special displays about mining, domestic labour, shack life and township jazz, as well as the role of two great 20th-century heroes, Mahatma Gandhi, who lived and worked in the city, and Nelson Mandela, who was jailed in The Fort after the historic 1956 Treason Trial. Closed on Mondays			Getting There Domestic Flights Africa Flights International flights KLM Flug von Milan KLM Flug von Amsterdam KLM Flug von Tokio nach Johannesburg KLM Flug von Jakarta Düsseldorf to Johannesburg Frankfurt Johannesburg Newcastle Johannesburg Manchester Johannesburg
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South Africa Cities Cape Town Johannesburg Durban Pretoria Port Elizabeth Attractions Kruger National Park Garden Route St Lucia Drakensberg Wild Coast Battlefields Sun City & Pilanesberg Provinces Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga Northern Cape North West province Western Cape	Apartheid Museum This extraordinarily powerful museum has already become the city's leading tourist attraction, an obligatory stop for visitors and residents alike. The Museum, with its large blown-up photographs, metal cages and numerous monitors recording continuous replays of apartheid scenes set in a double volume ceiling, concrete and red brick walls and grey concrete floor, is next to the Gold Reef City Casino, five kilometres south of the city centre. Closed Mondays Cradle of Humankind The Cradle of Humankind Site comprises a strip of a dozen dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossillised remains of ancient forms of animals, plants and most importantly, hominids. The dolomite in which the caves formed, started out as coral reefs growing in a worm shallow sea about 2.3 billion years ago. The Sterkfintein caves which were home to Mrs Ples a 3 million year old humanoid skull are the mose popular visit. It can be combined with a visit to the neighbouring Rhino and Lion park, which usually has young lion cubs which can be stroked. Gold Reef City Gold Reef City is a large amusement park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located on an old gold mine, the park is themed around the gold rush on the Witwatersrand. Park staff wear period costumes of the 1880s, and the buildings on the park are designed to mimic the same period. There is a museum dedicated to gold mining on the grounds where it is possible to see a gold-containing ore vein and see how real gold is poured into barrels. There are many attractions at Gold Reef City, not the least of which are water rides and roller coasters
	Newtown Cultural Precinct After an inauspicious start (the area was burned down by the fire brigade in 1904 as a measure to combat plague that had broken out there) Newtown has been reborn as a buzzing cultural precinct. The area features the unique Nelson Mandela bridge and is at the heart of Johannesburg's creative industries. Among the many cultural attractions are the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, Museum Africa, Newtown Music Centre, Market Theatre and Mary Fitzgerald Square.

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