Johannesburg (Category) - 923 posts

The Joburg Heritage Foundation recently hosted a tour of the "Ruins of Rose Road" in Upper Houghton. The tour was everything I hope for and more.

Last week I did a day-long tour of Soweto with Eenblond Tours, aka Gilda Swanepoel. I learned quite a few new things about this diverse section of Joburg.

Maps 4 Africa, the self-proclaimed first map store in Africa, is an African map and travel book wonderland. Go there before your next road trip.

The Carlton Hotel was once the glitziest hotel in Joburg. It's now been closed for two decades. Recently I managed to sneak a few pictures in the lobby.

The Global Cheese Company's Deliciously Greek Coffee Shop and Deli is hidden in an industrial complex near Edenvale. You won't find better haloumi anywhere.

I don’t normally write year-end wrap-up posts. I’m usually long asleep by midnight on 31 December. I don’t make New Years resolutions or …

The S-bend mural on Louis Botha Avenue connects the Joburg suburbs to the CBD, telling the story of the city's transport history as it goes.

Here are my top five recommendations on where to buy local South African and African gifts, especially African art, in Johannesburg.

On Sunday morning I watched Joburg's Bank of Lisbon Building implode, 14 months after the building was decimated in a massive fire.

The shot hole borer is a tiny beetle from Asia that is infesting and killing South Africa's trees. Here is some background information and tips to fight it.

Every year in early summer, Joburg's Gardens of the Golden City program opens some of the city's most beautiful private gardens to the public.

When I visit an interesting new Jozi restaurant, I don't always get around to blogging about it. Here are several good ones I've eaten at in recent weeks.