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The office towers of the Sandton business district standing on a hazy horizon above wooded ridges and low suburban rooftops in Johannesburg.
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Make the hours between flights count.

City guides written for the hours between flights rather than a fortnight's holiday: getting out of the airport, whether the app on your phone works here, which local laws will get you arrested for something legal at home, and where to eat and what to buy once you are out.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg is a city where the two decisions that matter, which suburb you sleep in and how you move between it and the airport, both have to be made before you land.

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The same eight questions, side by side, in the order that matters on a rotation: the local laws first, then getting out of the airport.

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