Gold Reef City Review

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Gold Reef City

  • Address: Gold Reef Rd., 6 km (4 mi) south of city center, Ormonde, Johannesburg
  • Phone: 011/248-6800
  • www.goldreefcity.co.za

Fodor's Review:

This theme park lets you step back in time to 1880s Johannesburg, and see why it became known as the City of Gold. One of the city's most popular attractions (avoid it on public holidays or weekends), it has good rides, and is based on the real history of Jo'burg. In addition to riding the Anaconda, a scary roller coaster on which you hang under the track, feet in the air, you can descend into an old gold mine (additional fee), see molten gold being poured, or watch a gumboot dance, a riveting dance developed by black miners. The reconstructed streets are lined with operating Victorian-style shops and restaurants. And for those with money to burn, the large, glitzy Gold Reef Village Casino beckons across the road.

  • Cost: R100
  • Open: Tues.-Sun. 9:30-4; mine tours 10-4 every 30 min
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