fatshark
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Difficult to offer tasters without knowing what your taste is, mate. But there are a lot better places to see than Sandton City, unless you are a bird who is mad about shopping in expensive boutiques.
Yes its true, you will find many poverty-stricken townships. Lots of tours offered to visit them. Also some uptight obnoxious middle-classers of any colour being rude to waiters, service can very from world-class to i'd-rather-go-into-the-kitchen-and-fetch-it-myself sh!te. Massive gap between rich and poor, so crime is a factor, but using a bit of common sense you are very unlikely to be a victim. The good news is that you are unlikely to get carjacked as a tourist, unless of course you bring your own car and its a luxury 4X4 or high performance German sedan. Which are everywhere.
Attractions: Game reserves with big 5 and lion parks are quite accessible. Highly recommend the Elephant Sanctuary at Hartbeespoort - interacting with rehabbed elephants, pretty cool. Some great museums and sights esp of the liberation struggle vs apartheid if history is your thing. There is an open-top hop-on-hop-off bus tour which is apparently world-class and on my list of things to do sometime. Lots of casinos, bars and nightclubs. Loads of restaurants including great steakhouses where you can get a decent 500g steak for less than 10 quid. The bad news is that if you want warm beer/mushy peas you will have to warm it/mush them yourself.
