Places to Visit

Gold Reef City

Gold Reef City Casino, with its amusement park and re-created atmosphere of old-time gold-rush Johannesburg, offers the whole family an action-packed experience brimming with history and fun that’s hard to beat. Take a light-hearted historical tour of a replica mining village, hop aboard a steam train, and pretend, for a moment, you’re a miner and go 2000m underground; catch displays of traditional and gumboot dancing and watch gold being poured - for it is on this precious metal that Johannesburg was founded.

Head for Gold Reef City’s Disney-style theme park, but with an African twist, for even more entertainment and thrills. Dare to see Jozi’s skyline from atop the Giant Wheel, ride the UFO, Dream Boat and stomach-churning Anaconda. For the lucky or loaded, Gold Reef City Casino, open 24 hours a day, offers slots, tables, sports betting, and a Salon Privé for the highrollers; or enjoy restaurants, old-fashioned shops and pubs, music venues and theatre shows.

Gold Reef City is certainly one of Gauteng’s most enduring attractions loved for its carnival atmosphere, variety of entertainment and value-for-money fun. In the same area, don’t miss the the Apartheid Museum, which provides chilling insight into the story of racial segregation in South Africa.



Cederberg Conservancy

Discover 162 000 hectares of pristine mountain terrain, stretching from the Pakhuis Pass in the north to Grootrivier in the south, when you visit the Cederberg wilderness.

Follow in the footsteps of the ancient San and Khoi to the Stadsaal Caves in the Koue Bokkeveld, on the rock art trail, where some sites date back around 8000 years. The area is a celebrated hiking and climbing destination, loved for its solitude and rugged mountain beauty that’s rich with endemic plant life including fynbos, the rooibos tea plant, threatened Clanwilliam Cedar trees and the rare Snow Protea, found only along the snow line of the Sneeuberg.

Mountain bike its rocky paths or tackle a challenging 4x4 trail; and if you’re fortunate you’ll see the rare Cape Leopard and other reserve inhabitants like porcupine, aardvark and Cape fox, along with 100 species of bird. Unforgettable though, are the fantastical rock formations this park boasts - Wolfberg Cracks, Wolfberg Arch and Maltese Cross – nature’s own sculpture garden on a grand scale.

Kruger Safari

Kruger National Park is a world-acclaimed safari tour destination and part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park between Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe – the world’s greatest animal kingdom. Game viewing’s best in winter (May to September) with mild temperatures and little rainfall; while in early spring (August to October) courtships duels, newborns and prolific birdlife can be seen.

There are rewarding self-drive routes to every corner of the park and twice-daily game drives from most camps, along with 7 guided wilderness trails, mountain biking and 4x4 routes from selected camps. Stay in a park-managed camp or one of the many luxury safari lodges on private game reserve concessions inside the reserve.

Besides the Big 5, lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, see endangered African wild dogs; go on a bush walk – if you’re lucky you’ll meet the Little 5, leopard tortoise, buffalo weaver, ant lion, elephant shrew and rhinoceros beetle - or camp out in the bush; even be a ranger for a day, and discover the secrets of bush craft, animal tracking and game capture.


Golden Gate Highlands

At the foothills of the Maluti-Drakensberg lies Golden Gate Highlands National Park, a spectacle of towering sandstone cliffs that turn gold, rose and russet-hued in the early morning and late afternoon sunlight.

Explore deep shady valleys and orange and mauve dappled grasslands in this breathtaking landscape, where you’ll come across red hot pokers (aloes), wild lilies and watsonias on self-guided walking trails. See black wildebeest, eland, blesbok, oribi, springbuck and Burchell’s zebra on a drive through the park; and stop at the vulture restaurant, to look for rare bearded vultures circling above.

Hike up the Brandwag Buttress for glorious views, or head for Ribokkop, the highest point in the park; and go on a guided walk to Cathedral Cave, where a stream plunges 30 m through the domed cave ceiling – out of season only, so as not to disturb the breeding colony of bald ibis roosting there. Horse ride, mountain bike or escape, to Highlands Mountain Retreat, with its eco-log cabins built snugly into the mountainside, where panoramic views complement this parks’ magnificent stillness.