Gold Reef City complex of is made up of Various components:
The Gold Reef City Casino.
The Apartheid Museum - details on separate page.
The Mining town with Amusement and Theme Park.
Gold Reef City - Amusement Park - Gold Mine Underground Tour - Mining Town -Theme Park - Helicopter Tour.
Helicopter/Chopper flight:
Take a sightseeing flight over Soweto and Johannesburg.
Gold Reef City Amusement Park:
Test drive the water rides, roller coasters and any of the over thirty adrenalin pumping fun rides. Includes the fastest inverted roller coaster in Africa - the Anaconda. Other popular rides are the River Rapids, Tower of Terror and the Jozi Express.
Travel down a Gold Mine shaft at Gold Reef City
Gold Reef City - Shaft No 14 - Underground Mine Tour:
Travel down the Gold Mine shaft in a large clangy lift to 720 feet (226 meters) for a guided tour. Walk down tunnels with a hard hat and a torch in hand and experience the tough conditions that the miners had to endure. Experience a short burst from a miners drill.
Follow coco pan tracks past the red dynamite box and get a view up a 35 degree slope with little head room and wooden steps that lead to the surface in the event of a power failure. Once back on the surface you experience demonstrations of pouring molten gold and traditional miner's gumboot dances. See how coins were pressed in the past and a museum dedicated to gold mining.
Gold Reef City - Mining Town Theme Park:
The mining town has been reconstructed to capture the gold rush era times of Johannesburg in its heyday. A comprehensive depiction of life in a turn of the century mining town including period houses and colourful street entertainment, discovering for yourself as to how the miners worked and played. Staff wear period costumes and you can also have your picture taken in a period costume. Enjoy a few pints in the saloon; take a stroll through the animal farm or a ride on a steam train. Or even a penny farthing cycle and a horse drawn carriage around the village.
Different tour options are available - with different prices.
Ekala Tours use qualified and registered guides - not drivers only.
Perfect options to include with Gold Reef City and Theme Park to create a full day tour:
Apartheid Museum - Soweto Tour - Johannesburg Tour
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For Gold Reef City Tour details or bookings -
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Tours available - 5 days a week - Wednesday to Sunday
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