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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. Sun City is the perfect choice for any holiday in South Africa. Sun City is conveniently located about two hours' drive outside Johannesburg. Sun City in South Africa has so much to offer… Sun City in South Africa boasts four hotels, each of which offer a unique experience to visitors. Several restaurants are located within these hotels and all amenities at Sun City are available to guests within all the hotels. Children are especially welcome at Sun City and the resort goes all out to provide something to please everyone. Whether you're after romance, family relaxation, or value for money, you'll find exactly what you're looking for in one of the hotels. Sun City adventure activities now offer guests a range of exciting new and different experiences. Enter unknown territory at the outdoor adventure centre and allow your adrenaline to flow!

Flying in a Tiger Moth Biplane: Experience a classic flight in the open cockpit of a Tiger Moth Biplane. Step back in time to the 1940’s for a vintage flight adventure over the Pilanesburg Mountains in this World War 2 Biplane. After a briefing on safety precautions strap on headgear
and goggles and board the Tiger Moth biplane and take off for one of the most exciting activities.

Archery: Archery has been introduced at Sun City offering guests the challenge of mastering this ancient art. Using modern equipment and with competent instructors who will guide you through the technique of shooting. See how you would fair against the legends.

Clay Pigeon Shooting: For those that prefer adventure activities with more firepower, Sun City now offers Clay Pigeon Shooting. Test your accuracy with a 12-gauge shotgun and try hit a clay pigeon. Instructors are on hand to assist if you have no previous experience.

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Elephant Back Riding: Participate in wildlife adventure with a difference. Depart from the hotel to the ‘Elephant Wallow’ where you will meet the elephants and their handlers. After a welcome drink and a brief talk, you will board the saddled elephants and enjoy an hour-long elephant ride, followed by drinks and light snacks.


Almost everyone has a cell phone. You can send e-mail from your hotel room, you can bank any foreign currency, you can watch CNN, and should you fall ill, the hospitals have world-class equipment and doctors who can be trusted with a scalpel. In downtown Johannesburg is the recently renovated Gandhi Square, commemorating the life of the Indian Freedom fighter, who spent some time as a lawyer in South Africa and learnt from first hand experience the inquities of racial discrimination


MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Gold Reef City:
It was a working gold mine until 1970s. it is now a creation of the old mining town with bars, restaurants, souvenir shops, a casino and entertainment. You can also go down the mine. The tour lasts for approximately 3-4 hours, the mineshafts is 226m deep. Closed on Mondays.

The Apartheid Museum:
Experience first hand the workings of the brutal apartheid machinery at the Apartheid Museum, less than 20 minutes drive from Johannesburg.

Sterkfontein Valley:
A 45 minute drive north west from Johannesburg is the Sterkfontein valley, one of the richest remains of hominids such as ‘Little Foot’, ancient ancestors of man, as well as of animals long extinct such as a Sabre toothed cat. The area has been declared as a World Heritage Site. Nearby are the Kromdraai Wonder Caves, with their spectacular Rhinestone pool, stalactites and stalagmites

Lesedi Cultural Village:
Where the visitors can experience at first hand the traditional lifestyles, art and culture of the Zulu, Pedi, Xhosa and Basotho people.

Union Buildings (Pretoria):
It is on these steps that Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratically elected President in 1994. The Union Buildings is the administrative headquarters of the government and stands majestically on Meintjieskop, overlooking Pretoria. At the time it was the largest building project to be embarked upon in South Africa. In 1901 the foundations were laid and the cornerstone on November 26 of the same year.

Hecter Peterson memorial (Soweto):
it was erected in the memory of the 14 year old boy, the first victim to be killed by the apartheid forces sent to crush the student uprising in 1976.



Voortrekker Monument

Voortrekker Monument:
The great grey colossus can be seen from all directions as you near Pretoria… the massive Voortrekker Monument, built in honour of the Voortrekkers (Pioneers), who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854. The architect was Gerard Moerdijk and it was his ideal to design a "monument that would stand a thousand years to describe the history and the meaning of the Great Trek to its descendants."


The central focus point of the Monument is the Cenotaph. On top of the Hall of Heroes' is an arch from where one can view the interior of the Monument. It is through an opening in the arch that the sun shines at twelve o'clock on 16 December each year onto the middle of the Cenotaph and the words, 'We for thee, South Africa'. The ray of sunshine symbolises God's blessing on the lives and endeavours of the Voortrekkers.

House of Paul Kruger:
Built in 1884, Paul Kruger's House commemorates the life of the former president of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek. The interior has been faithfully recreated to look exactly as it did when President Kruger lived in it more than a century ago.
 
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