Southern Sun Johannesburg

... flew into Cape Town and met my boyfriend. Together we hit the Southern Coast, then made our way up to Pilanesberg Nation Park and Johannesburg. We flew back to Port Elizabeth and trek'ed our way along the garden route back to Cape town. It was the best 2 ...

... friends in Perth know we would be arriving late and buying some airtime for the internet we jumped on the free shuttle to the Southern Sun Hotel a few hundred metres from the airport. Once we got there and handed over our letter to checkin we were handed ...

... wants to hear about airports!...       So, this entry is just sort of acknowledging Johannesburg while talking about something else...about the beginning...we flew to Johannesburg from Washington, DC with one stop for refueling ...

September 24th was the last leg of our flying adventure, returning to Johannesburg. Lots of hugs all around and exchanging of email addresses as we said good-bye to the fun people we had flown with these past few weeks. We did not have much internet ...

"We expect thunder-storms during our descent into Johannesburg" – that was to be the theme for the 3 trips in and 3 trips out of the city (and when I say city, I really mean airport. So this was my first flight on a South African Airways (SAA) ...

... of my science classes (ha). you can see planets, galaxies (no joke) and all of the well-known constellations (orien's belt, southern cross, etc.). it's like they're hitting you in the face when you look up at the sky. plus, the shooting stars happen ...

... get snow on the mountains there. They also have a really nice traditional village there -we even got the sample some traditional southern Sotho food. From there we went onto Beaufort West  (BW)- stayed in the Karoo National Park(KNP) just outside ...

... be beaten, raped, robbed, and carjacked within the first few minutes.  As it turns out, our initial impressions of Johannesburg were extremely positive.  No doubt there are some serious ghettos and crime issues but in our one-night stay we had ...

Goeie More from Johannesburg. We have finished off the Garden Route and we are now in J'Burg. Unfortunately we couldn't meet with Harry the elephant in Kynsna. Harry was unavailable to visitors and I couldn't help but wonder if it had something to do ...

... countries and hopefully, will come across them in either our, or their, travels in the future. As a general observation of Johannesburg, we were pleasantly surprised at the familiarity of the place.  As we walked along the streets, we found that ...

... the most ancient of continents. With Asia and Australia under our belts, we finally landed at Oliver Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg to begin the third and final leg of our worldly journey. As you can see, Johannesburg at night looks a ...

... , who picked us up in his car along with another visitor from France. He started off by showing us around the center of Johannesburg. There was some nice architecture (City Hall for example), tall buildings, and plenty of history that he told us about. We ...

... . We were waiting for the Baz Bus to come pick us up at Gemini Backpacker's at 9. The Baz Bus was our transportation from Johannesburg to Swaziland. Ang had ordered it for us, which was a nice deal since it was already planned before I got there. So ...

We've made it to Johannesburg after 32days and 4,200k's. Time has just sped by and it's amazed us how draining traveling can be but also what a different experience independent traveling is, not knowing where we'd end up sleeping each night but that has ...

173 km from Johannesburg, the trip is exhausting as the roads are not in a perfect condition (no motorway)...got up at 4 am in JoŽburg and arrived at 7 at the main gate of the park. Entrance fees are reasonable. At the entrance a spoon-bill (very ...

... early, get off the insanely bumpy, rugged dirt roads and give ourselves an extra day to make the long journey back to Johannesburg. But we kept faith that our luck would turn and decided to stay for the final night at Third Bridge campsite. After ...

The last couple of weeks in South Africa for us was spent busy sorting our our lives that we would be leaving behind... work, home, family and friends. So for our last night we decided to book ourselves into a luxury hotel, to help us ...

After a very long flight from Auckland to Singapore 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 ...

This time I was prepared for winter with my coat.  Kept my colleague awake on the plane coughing my lungs out.  I smell like an advertisement for hand sanitizer trying not to spread the flu.  Have tried a variety of medicines from the ...