Newtown!

Finally, I found the city! I was really beginning to think that it didn’t exist, that the skyscrapers you can see are only mirages in the endless trees and roads and walls and fences and security guards of the largest man-made forest in– wherever.

Newtown is just across the Nelson Mandela Bridge from [...]

Unconventional Tour of Soweto

They say the best way to see a place is with a local. They also say that to see Soweto, the former township that is at once part of Johannesburg and a whole other city, you should take a tour. In our usual muddled way, we managed to do both.

As you may have [...]

Moyo and Zoo Lake

After the Rosebank market it was definitely time for lunch so we went to Moyo, a famous restaurant nearby. On Sundays they have a buffet, and it proved to be really tasty. Barbeque is a big thing here and accordingly there were trays of barbequed chicken, sausage and fish, and a great [...]

African Kitsch

Another weekend, another excursion. Some tourism is necessary to remind yourself that Johannesburg is not only leafy green suburbs connected by winding highways leading inevitably to shopping malls. Or is it?
One Sunday we chose to go to the Rosebank rooftop market located on the roof of, well, a shopping mall. However, all [...]