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Rugby Tours To Johannesburg

Rugby Tours to Johannesburg, informally known as Jozi or Jo’burg, is the largest city in South Africa.

It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa.

While Johannesburg is not one of South Africa’s three capital cities, it is the seat of the Constitutional Court.

Located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade.

Rugby in Johannesburg also plays it part.

Ellis Stadium is home to the Lions Rugby franchise who play like the other South African sides in the Super Rugby.

Also, in the city is the Golden Lions which is the B team who play in the famous Currie Cup Championship.

Out of the present squad of players Elton Janties is probably the best-known player.

Past players include Rassie Erasmus, Jannes Labuschagne, Bobby Skinstad and Springbok captain and world cup winner Francois Pienaar.

We recommend a minimum ten-day trip to South Africa to see all the cities.

Interested in finding out more please get in touch info@irishsportingtours.com

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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Johannesburg.

  • Visit Soweto on a full or half day guided tour.
  • Why not try a hop on hop off bus tour of Johannesburg and get your feel of the city.
  • Up close and personal on a full day safari park tour.
  • Lots of fun at the Gold Reef City Theme Park.
  • Attend a training session with Lions Rugby coaching staff.
  • Watch a Super Rugby/Currie Cup match.
  • Walk around Nelson Mandela House former home of the great man.
  • Round of golf at one of the many fine golf courses around the city.
  • Adrenalin junkies will need to get their fix with bungee jumping.
  • Down on the beach learn how to surf with surfing lessons.
  • Would you like to strike it rich, how about an old mining tour?
  • Look around Constitution Hill a living museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy.
  • Learn what it was all about at the Apartheid Museum.
  • More adventure and fun at Zip Lining.
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Apartheid Museum

2001 the doors opened for the Apartheid Museum and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world.

The reason for this is the way it deals with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story.

First of its kind illustrates the rise and fall of apartheid.

As a museum it is a superb example of design, space and landscape offering the international community a unique South African experience.

Exhibits have been assembled and organised by a multi-disciplinary team of curators, filmmakers, historians and designers.

They include film footage, photographs and artefacts illustrating the events and human stories that are part of the epic saga.

For anyone wanting to understand what apartheid South Africa was really like, a visit to the Apartheid Museum is fundamental.

Apartheid Museum is a beacon of hope showing the world how South Africa is coming to terms.

It will also show how it is working towards a future that all South Africans can call their own.

Gold Mine Tour

Follow in the footsteps of the earliest gold miners as they tracked the gold-rich veins of South Africa.

Experience one of Johannesburg’s gold mine tours.

One of the first gold mines was the Kromdraai mine, which was initially a farm.

In 1881 gold was first found on the farm and in 1885 it was officially proclaimed a mine.

A visit to the Kromdraai gold mine will give you an unparalleled view of old mining methods.  You’ll enter the old workings through a large opening in the side of the hill.

Take a short walk down the cocopan tracks through roughly worked tunnels and into the heart of the mountain.  Here you will marvel at the conditions that people had to endure while extracting the gold ore.

Would you like to learn more about Johannesburg’s golden heritage and walk the gold trails of miner’s past?

Then why not enjoy one of these gold mines tours on your Rugby Tours to Johannesburg tour?

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Lions Rugby Training Session

Attend an intensive rugby training session with coaches from the Lions coaching team to improve you game and skills.

The sessions here in Johannesburg are very good and a lot of teams comment on how good they are.

Of course, it’s all down to the coach giving the session and the Lions staff that do them are very good indeed.

Teams take on a lot what is taught to them and this is shown in their results when they get home.

It’s all down to our training sessions and the coaches we provide on Rugby Tours to Johannesburg.

Visit Soweto

On this half day tour in Soweto, your guide will take you past all the hotspots in Soweto.

The tour will take you deep into the township culture.

Here you can enjoy a personal experience of how vibrant and lively this part of Johannesburg really is.

As you enter the Diepkloof area, you will take a walk past vendors selling just about anything.

In Orlando West you can visit Vilakazi Street.  Drive past the former home of Nelson Mandela and past the home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

You will have an opportunity to read about the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976.

On that tragic day an innocent little boy called Hector Pieterson gave up his life and kick-started the liberation of South Africa.

During this Soweto tour you will pass by the Mandela House.

A visit into the museum is optional.

While you continue your half day Soweto tour driving into one of the shanty towns  you get to interact with some of the locals.

By now you will have seen the good, the bad and the ugly facets of Soweto.

Driving past the Soweto Campus of the Johannesburg University you end your tour.

Stopping at the Chris Hani Baragwanth Hospital you will see the biggest hospital in the world.

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