Heritage Sights
The North West has much to offer: treasure routes and heritage sites; premium game lodges and national parks; meteorites and prehistoric skulls; and just about everything else from sunflowers to Sun City Resort.
If you’re keen to experience the best of the North West, trip beyond the mine dumps and endless mielie (corncob) fields to where the heart of this diminutive province brims with an arresting and earthy natural beauty.
Although the North West is one of South Africa’s smaller provinces, it is perfectly positioned as an easy-to-reach weekend getaway for millions of souls inhabiting the Gauteng concrete jungle.
Packaged by the regional tourism authorities as a ‘heritage destination’, the region now sees an influx of visitors beyond that of neighbouring Gauteng, with more and more visitors from the rest of the country heading here to sample an intoxicating combo of outdoor adventure options and unique cultural destinations.
Destinations Not to be Missed
Stretching from the Vaal River in the south to Botswana in the north - and bordered by Northern Cape and Limpopo - the North-West presents visitors with a lot of ground to cover.
Destinations not to be missed include the rugged Vredefort Dome (a unique geological meteorite basin declared as on of SA’s first World Heritage Sites), Lotlamoreng Cultural Village (a living monument to our indigenous diversity), Groot Marico (SA’s mampoer capital) Pilanesberg (a national park boasting fascinating geological features and diverse fauna and flora) and Sun City Resort (unarguably one of the world’s top entertainment complexes).
Safari near Sun City Resort. Just a few hours out of the hustle and bustle of Johannesburg you’ll find Pilanesberg National Park, a wildli...
Rising out of the ancient landscape Sun City Resort and the Lost Palace "Africa's kingdom of pleasure", is a luxury resort with luxury Sun C...