This document provides travel tips and highlights top attractions in three major cities in South Africa: Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban. Johannesburg is known as the financial hub and City of Gold, with attractions like botanical gardens and Gold Reef City theme park. Cape Town offers stunning natural beauty like Table Mountain and shark cage diving offshore. Durban, with its warm weather and beaches, is known as South Africa's playground, and features attractions like UShaka Marine World and historic Victoria Street Market.
3. As a tourism destination South Africa competes with the
best of them when it comes to natural beauty, sports,
culture & art, entertainment and business.
4. Cape Town in particular is a sought-after location for
large scale events and business interactions
5. • Johannesburg, the financial hub of South Africa, is
known as the City of Gold.
6. • Durban with its perennially warm weather, fabulous
beaches and year-round entertainment, it’s no wonder
Durban is known as South Africa’s playground.
7. Top Attractions in Johannesburg
• Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens
• Gold Reef City Theme Park – South Africa’s top
destination for family entertainment.
• Emmarentia Dam
• Johannesburg Botanical Gardens in Emmarentia
• Brenthurst Gardens in Parktown
• Everard Read Gallery in Sandton – South Africa’s most
famous commercial art gallery.
8. Top Attractions in Cape Town Areas
Table Mountain: Catch a cable car up the mountain, admire the panoramic views
of the city and the peninsula then abseil back down.
Shark cage diving: South Africa has an incredibly diverse shark population, so why
not dive into shark-infested waters.
Food: why not get the gastronomy juices flowing; from Cape Malay dishes such as
bobotie to Malay curries, amangina achar, Ethiopian lamb to Xhosa fares like samp
(crushed maize used in porridge) and marog (African spinach) and of course our
traditional “braai” !
Take a history lesson: Robben Island, the Castle and the District Six Museum are
must-visits.
9. Durban Attractions
• UShaka Marine World: The biggest theme park in Africa, featuring
a water world, underwater adventures, aquarium and shopping
mall.
• The Playhouse: The Tudor-styled Playhouse originally opened in
1935 and in the 1980s this historical landmark was restored and is
still in use
• The Victoria Street Market in Durban: The Victoria Street Market,
opened in 1910, is a historic landmark and renowned tourist
attraction in Durban
• The Indaba Heritage Route: The place where Mahatma Gandhi
established his philosophy of passive resistance.
