Rosebank rooftop market: it's all for you!

This one is for you, because you're either a tourist or a local:

Dear Tourist
Let's start with you:

Things for your buying and experiencing pleasure:

-Beaded, just about everything you can think of, things:

-Wooden African animals, because NO tourist leaves this country without a wooden giraffe no matter the size

-It's a bit last season, and I'm sure you hated it anyway, but (beaded) vuvuzellas are of course available... and we know you'll buy them and we know you'll misuse them.

-African song and dance... just in case you forgot you're in Africa.


-Driving through Jacaranda trees to get here

-the ability to say that you 'do as the locals do'...

and the locals are here because:

-of the antiques/collectables/second-hand/junk/dead people's treasures

-Thai foot massages, makes us feel exotic, pity it isn't 100 Baht for 30 minutes.

-Ranked the 121 out of 185 things to do in Jo'burg by the Lonley Planet.

-Food, we like food.

-Jumping castles, that's for people with kids, obviously... uhm obviously?

-People watching, we enjoy seeing tourist in our city... makes us wonder if Cape Town is really all that much better... (okay it's just me)

-Jo'burg is yet to catch up with weekend market culture so we don't have much choice but to come here.


Open: 9-5 every Sunday
Where: Corner of Cradock Avenue and Baker Street, Rosebank
Recommendations: Go and try every so slightly to haggle, it's not a given but it does work every now and then. The whole "that's too expensive so I'm walking away now" totally works.