Johannesburg Travel Forum

Any member who resides in johannesburg, south africa to please tell me how best i can enjoy my 3 weeks holiday over there.

Three weeks just in JHB is a bit long.

Few things to do:

1. Gold Reef City
2. Montecasino
3. Zoo
4. Nice shopping Malls : Rosebank (go to the roof top market on a Sunday); Sandton City;
5. Melville for interesting coffee shops and art and craft shops
6. Newtown - Market theatre
7. Tour to Pilansberg and Sun City (1 1/2 hour from JHB)
8. If you have transport go to Hartebeespoort Dam and LEsedi Cultural Village; Cradle of Humankind; Goblin's Cove.
9. Soweto tour
10.If you are intersted in Art and Museums - look on google for Art Galleries and Museums - Everard Reed is a nice gallery; Standard Bank Art gallery is also nice and so is the JHB art gallery.
11. Civic theatre has good shows.

That's what I can think of at the moment.

Enjoy!!

In case you don't know it, Johannesburg gets very cold in July, at night. The temperatures drop below freezing. This could be unexpected for you from Nigeria.

Gerald is right. Last year July was icy cold. Make sure you bring enough warm clothes. During the day it warms up but nights are normally cold to very cold.

3 weeks in Johannesburg is way too long. There is not much to do for a leisure tourist and the weather can be quite cold and miserable. I would definitely go to Durban for a few days. The weather is far better as they generally have warm days and cool evenings. I would also personally prefer to be at the coast than stuck in Joburg for three whole weeks! Cape Town is obviously a great highlight but the weather is not good in July.

it really cold here now,i would advise you come in summer,i am a nigerian and i know how unbearable it can be but if u must come u already have nice places to visit on your replies but capetown is the best plece for tourist.
have a wonderful stay.