In the Eastern part of South Africa’s large plateau area, you’ll find the world’s largest inland city that is not situated near a lake or river. This city is known as Johannesburg, the City of Gold.
As the wealthiest city in Africa, Johannesburg offers luxury living, pulsating nightlife and extraordinarily lavish attractions, such as the Gold Reef City, where guests can go beneath the ground on a mine tour, learn all about gold, its production processes, and the lives of miners who excavated it in the 1900s.
When the Dutch speaking Voortrekkers came across gold here in the 19th century, their settlement soon became a town that grew into a large, bustling city. It wasn’t long before the British rule of the Cape Colony received word of the riches up North, and the Second Boer War came to be. Johannesburg was then occupied on 30 May 1900.
Now it is the largest city in South Africa, rich with historical tales that can be found in numerous art galleries and museums, like the Apartheid Museum.