Johannesburg OR Tambo International is South Africa’s largest airport and is the air transport hub for Southern Africa. If your flying to Jhb OR Tambo is the main airport unless you booked a flight to Lanseria ariport.
OR Tambo formerly known as JHB International caters to nearly 20 million passengers a year and accounts for almost half the air traffic moving in and out of South Africa.
The bustling Johannesburg city was once a tiny shanty town with only miners with eyes laden with dreams of diamond’its hard to imagine. Besides being the main city and a eventful monopoly of commerce and trade, Johannesburg is also a fast growing tourist destination.
To get a glimpse of Johannesburg’s past, visit Gold Reef City. It also offers a trip to a mineshaft and some present day entertainment. For a quicker look at the tradition of the area, visit the Lesedi Cultural Village, which is a mixed group, comprising of Xhosa, Basotho, Zulu, and Pedi folks. You may find this experience highly pleasing and enlightening, as you see the dances and get information their culture and history.
Most visitors head for Soweto and Nelson Mandela’s former home, the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum and the Regina Mundi Church. Don’t forget to lay the dust with a quick drink at a ‘shebeen’. The most famous of these is called Wandie’s Place.
You may like to visit the Johannesburg Zoo, which keeps its animals without any bars. It has gone far in reproducing the natural habitats for the animals. This is a good option if you can not visit a real nature reserve. When you are in the surrounding area, you may even hire a rowboat, and spend some time on the Zoo Lake and enjoy bird watching. If you feel a little hungry by the end of the day, get into the Moyo’s to enjoy the African delicacies accompanied by the some good African music, which the city has to offer.
The Cradle of Humankind, one of World’s Heritage sites is situated just an hour’s drive from the city. It is yet another important place to see. Another attraction is the Sterkfontein Caves where in’47, Mrs. Ples, a 3 million year-old skull was originally discovered.
Johannesburg is great for shopping. It offers wonderful shopping experiences; arraying from urban malls like Sandton City, Nelson Mandela Square, and Hyde Park, to a several effervescent Oriental and African flea markets. Most tourists just cannot leave the place without purchasing some striking arts and crafts, which are found for sale, at these markets. Some of such items are bead work, local wire-work, traditional carvings, and fertility dolls.
Some of the treat in the city include food and wine. With food influenced by the mized cultures of this place, you can exactly test just anything, such as Italian, Malaysian, Indian, Mexican, Moroccan, French, Creole, and African. So check that you have ample of time to explore all the Johannesburg has to offer.