waters), the Metropolitan Centre and Civic Theatre. The Nelson Mandela bridge takes you across a river of railway tracks into the Newtown Cultural Precinct. Here you will see new apartment buildings, recently completed in this area as part of the plans to bring new life to the inner city. We also see the Museum Africa, formerly Johannesburg's fresh produce market.

We continue through the heart of downtown Johannesburg to Fordsburg, where many of Johannesburg's Indian community have their businesses. The Oriental Plaza is always bustling with activity as traders entice shoppers to view their wares. Passing the Hindu Crematorium, built on land donated by Mahatma Ghandi, we crest the ridge on which the Brixton Tower stands, one of Johannesburg's most visible landmarks, and then drop down into Auckland Park and Melville. Here the buildings of the SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) dominate the surrounding residential neighbourhoods, quiet shady streets with some of the city's older homes, neighbourhood restaurants and interesting little shops.

We then make our way to Jan Smuts Avenue, a major thoroughfare leading to the leafy northern suburbs of the city. We pass Westcliff, the Zoo Lake and the Johannesburg Zoological Gardens as we make our way through Saxonwold to Houghton, passing by the Johannesburg residence of Nelson Mandela. We soon reach Rosebank, well known for its African Craft Market, sidewalk cafe's, restaurants and interlinked shopping malls and continue