Johannesburg Experience

Highlights

Leistungen

Ablauf

1. The Apartheid Museum illustrates what life was like for South Africans under the apartheid system through dramatic photographs, videos, press clips, personal artefacts and moving anecdotes. The museum is situated at the Gold Reef City campus in Ormonde where it opened its doors in 2001.

   2 Std.Eintritt inbegriffen

2. Gandhi Square, named for the Indian leader and human rights activist, is located in Johannesburg’s central business district.Today the main focal point of this busy square is the unique 2.5m statue of Gandhi dressed in the robes of an attorney and it is also among the top Johannesburg attractions. While Gandhi was living in Johannesburg worked as a lawyer, and the site of the present square was also the location for city’s first court building, where the young Gandhi often made appearances.

   15 Min.

3. If you want a bird’s-eye view of Johannesburg, the 50-storey Carlton Centre is the place to go. Visitors to the centre can enjoy a panoramic view of the City of Gold from the Top of Africa, as the topmost floor of the building is known: 360 degrees of dense cityscape and outwards towards the countryside and beyond. The tallest building in Africa and once the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, the Carlton Centre stands 223m high – about 40m shy of featuring on the world’s top 100 skyscrapers list.

   Vorbeifahrt

4. Constitution Hill is a living museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former prison and military fort that bears testament to South Africa’s turbulent past and, today, is home to the country’s Constitutional Court, which endorses the rights of all citizens. There is perhaps no other site of incarceration in South Africa that imprisoned the sheer number of world-renowned men and women as those held within the walls of Constitution Hill.

   1 Std.

Stornierung

Kostenlose Stornierung bis 24 Stunden vor Beginn, mit voller Rückerstattung.

Gut zu wissen

How it compares in Johannesburg

• Its from-price is 65% below the median of the 897 experiences we list in Johannesburg.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Johannesburg

Johannesburg, Südafrikas dynamisches Wirtschaftszentrum: kraftvolle Geschichte, lebendige Townships, Kunst und Ausgangspunkt vieler Safaris.

Das Apartheid Museum erzählt mit großer Wucht die Geschichte von Segregation und Widerstand, und Constitution Hill, ein ehemaliges Gefängnis, in dem sowohl Nelson Mandela als auch Mahatma Gandhi inhaftiert waren, beherbergt das Verfassungsgericht. In Soweto ist die Vilakazi Street berühmt als die Straße, in der zwei Friedensnobelpreisträger, Mandela und Desmond Tutu, einst wohnten, und das Hector-Pieterson-Denkmal erinnert an den Schüleraufstand von 1976.

Top-ranked sights in Johannesburg: Soweto, Mandela House, Apartheid Museum.

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