Hotels in Gauteng, South Africa

Gauteng, South Africa's smallest province located in the northeastern part of the country, has a subtropical highland climate with hot, rainy summers (80-85°F / 27-29°C) from October to April and mild, dry winters (60-70°F / 15-21°C) from May to September. The region is famous for the 1886 gold discovery that created Johannesburg, a city where you can explore apartheid history at the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill, while Pretoria, 45 minutes north, offers the Voortrekker Monument and jacaranda-lined streets, and Soweto lets you see Nelson Mandela's former home on Vilakazi Street. During dry winters, you can visit the Cradle of Humankind's Sterkfontein Caves to see 2-3 million year old hominid fossils or go on a game drive at the nearby Lion Park, and in rainy summers, beat the heat at Gold Reef City's indoor rides or catch live jazz at The Orbit in Johannesburg.