Johannesburg Day Trips (Category) - 51 posts

The Anton Smit Sculpture Park, about 90 minutes from Joburg, is a forest of giant sculptures surrounding a whimsical restaurant/café.

The Tswaing Crater, on the border of Gauteng and Northwest Provinces, is the site of a 220,000-year-old meteor impact and is now a nature reserve.

I visited Field Berry Farm, a raspberry farm in Joburg South. The raspberries were great and so was Lungi, the farm's proprietress.

In the first week of my #Gauteng52 challenge, Ray and I went hiking on the Hennops Trail north of Joburg. We met several cows and a donkey.

An account of my surprise bungee-jump off the Orlando cooling towers in Soweto, and thoughts on Soweto's role as the adrenaline capital of South Africa.

A few weeks after I moved to South Africa five years ago, I walked into an antique shop and fell into a conversation with the owner about interesting places to …

I recently wrote an article for JHBlive.com about a weekend that I spent at the Maropeng Hotel in the Cradle of Humankind, just north of Joburg. (See the …

When I’m bored, I, kinda drift away, I’m not sure, quite, why we work all day. I’ve been thinking, and I’ve got this plan, Let’s …

Nearly four years after my move from America to South Africa, I’m still disturbed by holiday season-inversion. Celebrating Christmas in summer is surreal, …

Sixth in my series of Sandton Snapshot posts, leading up to the publication of SandtonPlaces. Browse all of the Sandton Snapshot posts. South Africans like …

Before I continue my series on Lesotho and the Eastern Free State, I need to tell you about a fun excursion to the Cradle of Humankind that I took last month as …

A few weeks ago, while Dad and I were staying at DeHoek Country Hotel, we found ourselves with an afternoon to kill in the Cradle of Humankind. We considered …