Kensington Cottages

Jo’burg: not exactly a city for sissies. That’s why the Kensington Cottages is the right place to be. Your host Peter van den Akker will guarantee you not only a more than pleasant stay in the en suite cottages. He also assists you on your fact finding tours in a manic-depressive metropolis once aptly described as a place of violent swings from euphoria to despair. On these trips, you can make use of ‘sound walks’, a travel guide in audio for on the spot information to be played on your iPod or MP-3 equipment. Breakfast or just relaxing on the sunny terrace of the Kensington Cottages.

The Kensington Cottages; the ideal place to enjoy the hustling and bustling of an effervescent city. There is trendy Melville with a host of excellent restaurants. And passing over Johannesburg’s new landmark the Nelson Mandela Bridge one finds the cultural precinct Newtown which has rejuvenated itself and where one can feel the heart beat of Africa in one of the many music venues which sprang up in this area. Not to be missed is a tour of Soweto with its historical spots and the adjacent Kliptown, the cradle of the ANC’s Freedom Charter which paved the way for today's South Africa.