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a day of contrasts
Today, it’s about Joburg’s urban useful contacts sprawl; with businesses and sowetobicycletours.com residences having moved out of the sandtoncity.com city and into the surrounding suburbs. After a moyo.co.za hearty breakfast, get yourself ready for a twomontecasino.co.za hour bicycle tour of Soweto. Soweto Bicycle Tours offers a two-hour, four-hour or a full-day tour; a pick-up and drop-off service, which is extremely convenient if you’re a nervous driver; as well as a tuk-tuk tour, if you prefer not to cycle. The two-hour tour gives you a taste of what Soweto is all about, and includes a visit to the Hector Pieterson Memorial, Mandela’s former home, and a drink or two at Lebo’s, a local shebeen. Having worked up an appetite with all that peddle power, it is time for lunch, with a spot of people watching and shopping thrown in for good measure. Sandton City is situated in Africa’s richest square mile and is the business hub of Gauteng. The shopping complex offers international and local brands, African art and crafts, as well as health, beauty and leisure stores. Grab a table at one of the restaurants that overlook Nelson Mandela Square and watch as the suits and heels of the business district scurry past. Baglios is an Italianthemed restaurant situated at the entrance to Nelson Mandela Square. The food is good, appealing to most tastes, and the sorbets, ice creams, milkshakes and smoothies go down really well on a hot summer’s day. Now that your friends and family are thoroughly exhausted from their first two days in Joburg, take them to the leafy suburbs of Parktown for an African-themed dinner at Moyo at Zoo Lake. The restaurant has a relaxed family atmosphere and the evening includes face painting, children’s craft activities, a hand-washing ceremony and some African entertainment. Alternatively, you can end your second day in Joburg with a trip to Montecasino, an indoor, Tuscan-themed entertainment venue in the northern parts of Joburg. There you will enjoy various restaurants, a bowling alley, a cinema complex, an arcade and musical fountains in the outdoor piazza.
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