4-nights Joburg Highlights Experience

On arrival in Johannesburg you will make your way to your hotel. 

Check - In at Radisson Blu Sandton Hotel and spend your afternoon exploring the shopping malls or relaxing at your hotel.

This morning after breakfast you will be collected at your hotel for your Scheduled Full Day Rise to Freedom Tour

Join the freedom walk with your tour guide, dressed in costume and in character for a full day. Celebrate the local community’s success stories and be transported to a volatile Johannesburg filled with intrigue and drama, whilst learning about South Africa’s liberation. Highlights include Liliesleaf Farm; Hector Pieterson Memorial site; Vilikazi street Soweto, June 16 Memorial Acre; Walter Sisulu Freedom Square, a street market and Constitution Hill (if open).

This morning after breakfast you will be collected at your hotel for your Scheduled Full Day Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind & Sterkfontein Caves Tour.

Experience the birthplace of life, first-hand. The Cradle of Humankind is one of eight world heritage sites in South Africa boasting 13 excavation sites that’s recognised worldwide. The first Hominid Fossil was discovered in 1924. Visit the Maropeng (meaning “returning to the place of origin”) Museum and witness how we evolved into the people we are today, discover some of the animal species that became extinct in the last century and see how humans are busy destroying the earth in real-time. Our tour continues to the Sterkfontein Caves, one of the richest and most productive Paleo-anthropological sites in the world that forms part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Amongst the most remarkable findings to have been made by numerous world famous scientists within the Cradle of Humankind is the famous Mrs. Ples, the first complete Australopithecus skull to be discovered and more recently, “Little Foot”, a 4.17 million-year-old almost complete ape-man skeleton that was discovered in the same caves.

This morning after breakfast you will be collected at your hotel for your Scheduled Half Day Johannesburg Walking Tour.

Enjoy a walking tour through the heart of the Johannesburg city centre, also referred to as the city of gold. Walk past Chancellor House, from where Nelson Mandela & Oliver Tambo ran the first black legal practice in the country during the 1950’s. Visit Mad Giant, a renowned local craft brewery, to experience the tastes and craftmanship of the newly established craft beer industry. Then we’re off to the Johannesburg City Library that opened in 1935, designed by architect John Perry in an Italianate style and regarded as one of the most impressive buildings built in the city during the 1930’s. Walk past Luthuli House, the headquarters of the African National Congress, followed by the Johannesburg City Hall, an Edwardian building constructed in 1914, the Rissik Street Post Office, built in 1897 during the time of Paul Kruger, the Anglo American Corporation founded by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer in 1917 and Beyers Naude Square (formerly Market Square). Finally, we continue to the Johannesburg Magistrate Court, scene of two car bomb explosions in 1987, during the ANC’s armed struggled against Apartheid. Our walk concludes at the clay sculpture of Walter and Albertina Sisulu, prominent activists during the Apartheid era. The sculpture depicts their love for each other and for the South African nation.

This morning after breakfast you will check out of the hotel and make your way back to the airport.

End of Itinerary!!