I hadn’t planned on spending a full day at Gold Reef City. I’d planned on stopping by for a couple of hours, getting a feel for the place and moving on with my afternoon. But Johannesburg has a way of absorbing your schedule without apology and Gold Reef City especially, once you’re inside, leaving becomes a conversation you keep postponing. Before I even got to the gates, I was already sorted on the money side. I’d loaded naira through Spendin that morning selected ZAR, confirmed the amount, done before I’d finished my coffee. That simplicity set the whole day up right. No cash hunt, no wondering if my card would behave in a foreign terminal. Just funds ready, in the right currency, in my pocket before the city woke up properly.
Gold Reef City sits on what used to be an actual gold mine on the southern edge of Johannesburg and the whole park is designed around that g
