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Luxury Travel to South Africa- Johannesburg
While Cape Town has beautiful
scenery, entertainment and dining options and an
idyllic cityscape to offer, Johannesburg is like its
more streetwise, sexily dangerous counterpart.
South Africa has always been associated with luxury
travel- polished safari lodges, excellent
city-centre luxury hotels and haute cuisine from
hotel kitchens being de rigeur even in the most
remote safari outposts.
Tipped as the New York of
Africa, Johannesburg acts as the financial capital
of South Africa and attracts gold prospectors( of
the literal and metaphorical sort). The (sexily)
dangerous character and reputation of the city gives
a delicious frisson to this city, serving as a
microcosm of this country's turbulent history. Any
tour to South Africa would be incomplete without
experiencing this city.
Johannesburg, not traditionally
recognised as a tourist destination
but more of a necessary(and at times, begrudged)
point of transit for tourists visiting to the more
scenic Cape Town or making their way to Kruger, is
essentially for travellers looking to get under the
skin of a country.
The interestingly-designed
Apartheid Museum( gorgeous sleek minimalist lines
and interesting coupling of materials aside, the
museum forces the visitor to experience bits of life
under apartheid rule first-hand through its
segregated entrances, tickets and introduction to
persons who lived through apartheid)is a must- see
in Johannesburg, as are the art galleries, mushrooming
across the country in cognizance of the neglected
genre of vernacular art.
Head down to the Market Theatre complex, once a
notorious place for staging anti-apartheid plays-
now a
centre for modern South African playwriting.
Luxury travel in South Africa, aside from
facilitating the top names in local luxury
accommodation, includes privileged access to
personalities, intimate knowledge of the lodges as
well as escorted travel, representing the new
frontier in luxury travel. Travel according to niche
interests is also possible, Urbane Nomads offering
an insider's look to the kwaito scene in South
Africa, travel to remote safari lodges, rounded off
with relaxation in the Cape Winelands.
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