#Parks - 34 posts

27 Boxes is a retail center made from recycled shipping containers on 4th Avenue in Melville. There have been some great developments there lately - here are 12 …

The Long March to Freedom National Historic Monument in Pretoria is a collection of hundreds of life-size sculptures of heroes in the South African struggle for …

Marievale Bird Sanctuary is a wetland nature reserve in Ekurhuleni, just over an hour from Joburg. Marievale has incredible birdwatching and it's free.

The Wilds, a beautiful park near downtown Joburg, has come a long way since my first blog post about it in April 2016. Help reclaim the Wilds this Sunday.

This weekend I attended the "Land That Never Forgets" exhibition at Rhodes Park in Kensington. I decided this park deserves its own #Gauteng52 post.

Every year in March, the green field of Delta Park explode with pink and white cosmos flowers. This is the South African version of autumn leaves.

A walk through the Wilds, one of Joburg's most beautiful parks, which doesn't deserve its historically negative reputation.

Pictured above: A church service in Alexandra Township. A couple of months ago I posted about the “Three Days in Johannesburg” travel guide that I …

This week, while poking around the Illovo/Melrose area for my SandtonPlaces research, I wandered into James and Ethel Gray Park: a city park just off the M1 …

My grandmother, Frances Mason (aka Cooncie), loved visiting cemeteries. When I was a kid, Cooncie was always nagging me to come with her to visit our family …