Take your pick of Jozi s urban veggie gardens on this novel bike tour The Organic Experience will make you rethink the notion that downtown Johannesburg is a cold concrete jungle Selemagae Rosta Makhubele (Ma Rosta) at The GreenHouse Project in Joubert Park. Image: Sanet Oberholzer
I have never really thought of downtown Joburg as a place of green abundance, but I m happy to be proven wrong. Joburg is known as a concrete jungle but that concrete is actually very fertile, says Franck Leya by way of introduction to Honest Travel Experience s latest tour an organic experience of the city.
Born in the Congo, Leya left his country of birth as a refugee at the age of seven because his father, a political journalist, lived in fear of execution. Making their way through Zambia, Tanzania, Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, it took them a few years to reach their destination: SA.