Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October, 2012

Ghost Bus Tour

So I finally got a chance to use my birthday voucher, which was a ghost bus tour, through Joburg. 6 October 2012: The afternoon / evening started off at the Pound and Penny pub, at the Sunnyside Park Hotel. Dakota and I were met by a very warm, intimate pub setting, with old style furniture. We decided to make the most of the 2 hours we had to wait, and had 2 snack baskets and 2 slightly spirited drinks. At 7 pm, a bell outside the pub started ringing, indicating the tour was about to begin. Our tour guide was the man who created the Johannesburg version of the Ghost Bus Tour, Mark Rose-Christie, who dressed the part, and began telling some spine chilling stories of how ghost came about to be known in the real world. After a few scares, and some interesting stories, we boarded the bus which played eerie music to add to the atmosphere. We were given a brief overview of the evening, but were warned to not ask the driver where we were going, as he was not human! The fir