10 Places to Visit in Melville's 27 Boxes

15 May 2018

27 Boxes is a retail center made out of shipping containers on 4th Avenue in Melville.

Outside 27 Boxes
The beautiful new children’s play area outside 27 Boxes.

I recently wrote a story about 27 Boxes for the Differe**nt, which goes into the interesting history of the center and of Faan Smit Park, the Joburg City park that used to be where 27 Boxes is now. So I won’t go into that in this post.

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The Long March to Freedom National Heritage Monument

07 January 2018

UPDATE (JANUARY 2019): The Long March to Freedom National Heritage Monument has moved, from the Fountains Valley Resort to Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind. Read about my visit to the new location.

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#Gauteng52, Week 50: Marievale Bird Sanctuary

12 December 2017

Welcome to Week 50 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit the Marievale Bird Sanctuary.

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Reclaim the Wilds This Sunday

20 November 2017

In April 2016 I published a blog post about the Wilds, a park near downtown Joburg. That post felt kind of controversial at the time because most Joburgers considered the Wilds to be a horribly dangerous place where no rational person would ever go.

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#Gauteng52, Week 42: Kensington's Rhodes Park

18 October 2017

Welcome to Week 42 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit Rhodes Park in Kensington.

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#Gauteng52, Week 12: The Cosmos of Delta Park

22 March 2017

Welcome to Week 12 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit Delta Park, which explodes with pink and white cosmos flowers every autumn.

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