Johannesburg Travel Guide

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg
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Zoo Lake

Zoo Lake

Zoo Lake
Popular for welcoming all races, even during apartheid, Zoo Lake is a park located on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It has a lake with boating facilities, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a…

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Football FestivalFootball Festival
28 - 29 Nov 2009
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Coca-Cola Dome
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Nightlife

Johannesburg has a lively nightlife and venues go in and out of fashion all the time. In Soweto and other townships, nightlife is centred on shebeens (informal drinking places, which are often in someone’s home) or taverns (more fancy than shebeens, possibly with live music). Going out alone in Soweto is not advised, although do go with a local or take a guided shebeen tour (see Soweto T ours in the Key Attractions section).Across the rest of the city are numerous places to drink from male- and …

Sightseeing

Unlike other South African cities (such as Cape Town, with its world-famous Table Mountain, and Durban, with its dramatic beachfront parade of towering hotels) Johannesburg has no obvious scenic feature to distinguish it from many other drab and sprawling inland cities.The 30-minute drive from the airport serves as a good introduction to this city. From here, a six-lane highway (the R24 and N12) carves a path first through a high-tech industrial and commercial district, then through leafy, upper…

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