SELF
DRIVE - PILANESBURG NATIONAL PARK
DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA:
This tour is aimed at those who wish to experience
Africa’s BIG 5 in the malaria free Pilansberg National
Park. Combined with the game viewing is a day at Sun City.
Sun City is internationally renowned as South Africa 's premier
holiday resort offering a multitude of attractions and activities
to keep everyone occupied. With its combination of golf, game
and gambling, as well as world class hotels. It’s a
great option if your pressed for time, as the drive is a mere
two hours from Johannesburg.
DURATION: 4 nights
RATES FROM: On request. Please contact
African Budget Safaris
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
• Car Hire
• Accomodation (on a B&B basis)
• Detailed instructions on finding your way around.
DETAILED ITINERARY
Day 1 & 2 - Johannesburg to Pilansberg National
Park
Leaving Johannesburg you head towards the Maleria
Free Pilansberg National Park. The park is 55.000 hectares
in extent. It is almost perfectly circular because it comprises
the area of a 1200 million years old volcano crater with a
small lake in the centre. This very scenic terrain lies in
the transition zone between Kalahari and Lowveld, and both
types of vegetation are found here. The park is home to Africa’s
BIG 5 including a thriving Lion Population. Other animals
that call the Pilansberg home include elephants, white and
black rhinos, buffaloes, leopards, zebras, hyenas, giraffes,
hippos and crocodiles. Over 300 bird species were counted.
The roads in the park (some 200 kilometres) are not tarred,
but very well maintained and can be travelled with a normal
vehicle.
The park offers a number of wonderful picnic spots, numerous
hides for game watching, huge walk-in aviaries, safe hiking
trails, safari drives at night and flights over the park in
a hot-air balloon.
Accommodation: Bakgatla
or Manyane Resort
Day 3 - Pilansberg to Sun City
After getting your fill of game viewing you
head a mere half and hour towards Sun City South Africa’s
premier Entertainment destination. Sun City Resort in the
Pilanesberg in the North West Province is one of the most
remarkable destinations in Africa.
This vast complex, nearly 20 km in circumference, is an enormous,
opulent extravaganza of luxurious hotels, glittering entertainment
centres, restaurants, gaming rooms, shops, discos and extensive,
beautifully landscaped grounds, rated among the world's most
unusually conceived, and most lavish, inland resorts.
The Valley of Waves, which links The Palace of the Lost City
Hotel to the Entertainment Centre, incorporates 22 different
regions of vegetation, from a rocky outcrop of ancient baoba
trees, to a lush, tropical jungle.
Walkers are enticed to the Waterscape, a huge arrangement
of interlinked pools, a kilometre of low weirs and two kilometres
of walkways, that lead through gardens and over, and under,
rock formations. Among the Waterscape's permanent residents
are swans, herons, and the rare South African black duck.
It has its own 25 Hectare jungle of 3 500 trees, drawn from
around the world, plus a 100 x 60 m swimming pool and 'beach',
with 1,8 m high artificially created surfing waves. Among
other features are massive water chutes for the brave, and
a Lazy River Ride for the young and not-so-brave. The entire
area is spectacularly illuminated at night.
The Entertainment Centre is a vibrant concentration of restaurants,
bars, discos, speciality shops, conference venues, cinemas,
slot machines and a massive 200 seat computerised bingo hall.
In its core is the Superbowl, used for conventions, banquets
(seating 3 500 people), extravagant promotions, big-name shows
and international events. The Casino offers the standard gaming
range plus slot macines, a salon prive (punto banco and chemmy)
for devotees, and the 620-seat Extravaganza Theatre.
Outdoor activities include tennis, bowls, squash, horse-riding,
swimming, tenpin bowling, an animal farm for children and
game viewing at Pilanesberg National Park.
The Gary Player Country Club boasts 2 top world-class golf
courses and has hosted most of the world's greatest players.
It is the venue for the annual Million Dollar Golf Challenge.
The Kwena Crocodile Garden at the entrance gate, is a reptile
park and ranch distinguished by its dramatically 'ethnic'
architecture, its luxuriantly tropical surround, and by the
giant Nile crocodiles it contains, including 'Footloose',
a 120-year old crocodile weighing 800 kg.
Accommodation: Sun
City Cabanas
Day 4 - Sun City to Johannesburg
Departing from Sun City you head back towards
Johannesburg where you spend your last night. Tour ends.
Accommodation: Airport
City Lodge
NOTES:
• The accommodation indicated in each area
is dependant on availability. Should there be no availability
during your requested period African Budget Safaris will provide
an alternative option.
• You can extend your package by checking out our various
other self drive options or alternatively you can drop your
hired car of at the Johannesburg International Airport and
fly onwards to your next destination. Check with African Budget
Safaris for a list of budget airlines that can be booked online.
• Pre tour accommodation can be booked for you in Johannesburg.
Please contact African Budget Safaris for details.
CAR HIRE
 You
have a choice of vehicles available through African Budget
Safaris. Each vehicle is priced according to make, model,
size and attributes of the vehicle (i.e. mnaual / automatic,
airbags etc.). When enquiring about a self drive option, please
indicate the vehicle group that you are wanting to hire.
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