Day Trips

Sun City Resort in the Pilanesberg in the North West Province is one of the most remarkable destinations in Africa. The vast Sun City Resort 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.

Sun City Resort is rated among the world's most unusually conceived, and most lavish, inland resorts. Adjoining Sun City Resort, is the beautiful Pilanesberg Game Reserve, which will delight game viewers as it is a malaria free zone and home to the Big 5.

The Valley of Waves, which links The Palace to the Entertainment Centre at Sun City, incorporates 22 different regions of vegetation, from a rocky outcrop of ancient baoba trees, to a lush, tropical jungle.

The Marakele National Park in the heart of the Waterberg Mountains, as its Tswana name suggests, has become a 'place of sanctuary' for an impressive variety of wildlife due to its location in the transitional zone between the dry western and moister eastern regions of South Africa.

Contrasting majestic mountain landscapes, grass-clad hills and deep valleys characterize the park. Rare finds of yellowwood and cedar trees, five metre high cycads and tree ferns, are some of the plant species found here.

All the large game species from elephant and rhino to the big cats as well as an amazing variety of birds including what’s probably the largest colony of endangered Cape vultures (more than 800 breeding pairs) in the world, have settled here at Marakele National Park.

Meet our herd of elephants and learn all about them from trunk tip to tail, as well as their unique personalities, abilities, intelligence, quirks etc. You’ll get to meet all the elephant’s and learn all about them in a wonderful immersive educational experience.