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The capital of South Africa's smallest province, Gauteng, Johannesburg is the economic powerhouse of Africa with its ever-growing suburban sprawl creeping outwards from the central city skyscrapers and ring-road motorways. I Johnannesburg has a wide array of hotels, with a wide choice of from Johannesburg Hotels to Johannesburg Bed and Breakfast. Sandton is the major toursit area where one will find Johannesburg Hotels that range from Deluxe Johannesburg Hotels, non chain boutique as well as Chain hotels to more moderate Johannesburg lodging. Johannesburg today is a city of contrasts, with glass-paned modern luxury high-rise buildings towering beside a few remaining dilapidated Victorian buildings, and affluent northern suburbs filled with stunning private homes giving way to the squalid streets and tiny shoebox houses of the massive Soweto township in the south. However this is changing and Soweto know has an exploding middle class and smaller upper class..it indeed is a place of contrasts.Two Nobel prize winners have there houses there, ex President Nelsonn Mandela, and Desmond Tutu. Most visitors to South Africa, particularly those intent on exploring the game reserves of Mpumalanga, arrive at Johannesburg's busy International Airport, which is the main point of entry for the country. There are many interesting tours in Johannesburg such as the ‘Heritage Route' or ‘Shebeen Crawl' tour of Soweto, but take care only to venture into the maze of the township with an organised tour or professional guide. As well there is the Apartheid Musuem, Cradle of Mankind, a cultural village tour, diamond mines,goldmines, and some wonderful restaurants and shopping, Johannesburg is well worth a 2 Night or more stopover. For more information on our Johannesburg day tours see this link Johannesburg day tours |
