Sandton Sun

Our trip with Northcote College is an 18 day tour of South Africa. We will arrive in Johanesburg and transfer to Capetown where we start our tour.

... 4 days Uganda Kampala Fri 23 Apr 2010 6 days Rwanda and Burundi Kigali and Bujumbura Tue 04 May 2010 10 days Nigeria Lagos, Abuja Sun 9 May 2010 Togo, Ghana, Benin Thu 05 Jun 2010 back in JHB Johannesburg Fri 11 Jun 2010 Opening Game SWC 2010` ...

... a great time there (I was sooo happy to be served Ugali too, I'd missed that so much!) and danced on the street in the sun. After that we returned to the hostel and had a party in the bar, though this ended up stretching out into the garden and kicthen ...

... Zealand for the world champions. (they actually left the day we arrived here there was a huge gathering just by the hotel in Sandton at Mandela square). We arrived at the Lion park and took a safari buss through the bush. It was really great. There were ...

... dishwasher. There aren't that many places around here to get food so seems a bit excessive. The hotel is in the Miracle Mile. Like Sandton Sun & Towers in Sandton City for all you Joburgers. The 170 shops are just as fancy and there are 15 ...

... and then Singapore to Johannasberg we met up with the other two people in out party and our guide, Chris. We drove to our hotel in Sandton which was amazing. Of course, there was a mix up when we got there and had to wait for check in. The upside was that ...

... hate when we entered the Apartheid museum through the Black only entrance. This morning we were up long before dawn, we watched the sun rise into a clear blue sky and the world looked at peace. The hustle and bustle of the city below was still yawning ...

... ; Western Province of Johannesburg.  I remembered that Michael Jackson was reported to have had some interest in the Sun City during his time. I would like to thank Walter who is the director of Incredible Tours as he arranged my dream ...

... the hotel in Swaziland a few weeks ago. 'Hello, I’m checking in, the name’s Surname’ say I. A quick look on the computer had the receptionist looking up at me with a big broad smile. ‘Welcome the Ezulwini Sun Hotel, ...

... of a moving target due to illegal immigrants and a flood of people moving to places like Soweto and Alexandra from the country. Sandton, where I am staying, has become the new CBD and Financial district and also the new home of the SA stock exchange. ...

... is the new rapid transit link between the airport and Santon. There are four stops – the airport, Rhodespoort, Middlesex, and Sandton. Outside the windows I saw familiar landscape – the pale brown grass of the winter veld, plus the swatches of ...

... our luxury master-bed where we would sleep for 12 hours...  Jet lag had set in. The following two evenings in Sandton were absolutely exciting and entertaining.  We were invited to join Shanne and Stephen for "a few drinks" after work ...

... Berg before we jumped on the luxury train to Cape Town. So after 2+ days hunkered down in Jo'Berg's business and pleasure suburb of Sandton, we got on a train for the final leg to Cape Town. We were happy to leave the siege mentality of Jo'Berg behind. ...

... from back home that the best place to shift tickets was in Rustenburg, we weren't too hopeful. As we entered the ticket office in Sandton we were approached by loads of guys outside trying to sell us USA vs Ghana tickets... no thanks mate, we've got four ...

October 16th, Saturday We rose early and set off in the car – first of all heading south from Sandton, where we are staying, into Joburg and subsequently north to Pretoria. We chose to go into Joburg on Saturday morning, as we thought the highways ...

... is in for a surprise. I took the Gautrain, Johannesburg's new rail service from the airport to town, and hopped off in Sandton. This is where the Westford hotel can be found; the Westford is the jumping off point for my Intrepid Travel tour in Botswana ...

... despite our best search efforts and asking numerous people it doesn’t seem to exist! So next shopping centre in the main town of Sandton, we find it but only 15 minutes is free then after it is extortionate. What we failed to realise was that it was ...

... despite our best search efforts and asking numerous people it doesn’t seem to exist! So next shopping centre in the main town of Sandton, we find it but only 15 minutes is free then after it is extortionate. What we failed to realise was that it was ...

... to shoulder with people from all walks of life.  Outside the club would be a row of Porsches, Bentleys and Range rovers- what Sandton wishes it could be like- from any photos you would think we were in Monaco.   As I had experienced in ...