If you find yourself renting a self catering furnished property in Nelspruit (Mbombela) from Feel-at-Home Properties and wondering what to do over a weekend of leisure. Here are some ideas to keep you busy during your stay in Nelspruit (Mbombela), Mpumalanga, South Africa.
There are numerous different activities for nature lovers as well as the historian at heart.
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Go deep in the Sodwala Caves (Nelspruit, Mbombela) – The Sodwala caves are the oldest on earth and encase the oldest dolomite chamber in the world, the Owen hall extends 70 meters in diameter and reaching a height of 70 meters. The caves are estimated to be over 3 000 million years of age with a fossilized ceiling made of 2 000 million year old algae colonies known as stramatolites; one of the earliest forms of life discovered in the Southern Africa. Once exploited for the deposits of bat guano (dung used as an African delicassy and a western fertiliser) the cave was open to the public by P. R. Owen when he purchased the farm the cave existed on and built a road that led to the entrance.
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Go Back in time at Dinosour Park (Nelspruit, Mbombela) – When the full extent of your historic knowledge has been shared with much love and patience and you simply do not know the next answer to the line of continuous ‘Why’s being fired in your direction from someone who takes you up to the knees… visit The Dinosaur Park. Here you will stand below the knee-height of life-size dinosaur models in a museum of life. Replicas of reptiles will keep an enquiring mind alive despite the extinction of your wisdom. Pre-historic creatures that roamed the earth over 100 million years ago visually explain the history of the planet without the causalities and age restriction of a Jurassic Park feature. Situated in a lush real life sub-tropical garden with giant cabbage trees and cycads growing wild as part of the splendid forest, living monkeys play amongst the lifeless ancestors. Wander amongst open jawed statues of long named carnivores in toothy tackles while sub-tropical birds tweet overhead, happy as a species that survived evolution.
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Visit Chimpanzee Eden (Nelspruit, Mbombela) – Set on a 1000 hectare game reserve, JGI Chimpanzee Eden is a home to chimpanzees that have been misplaced from their natural habitat. The world renowned Jane Goodall Institute has made this tranquil venue their South African sanctuary and has committed itself to the rescue and care take of chimpanzees in need of refuge. Being the 1st and only chimpanzee sanctuary in South Africa, this venue will be able to bring the world of chimpanzees closer to humanity through education, tourism and modern technology. Entering the reserve, a mere 15 km from the bustling city of Nelspruit, visitors can expect to be captivated by the beautiful bush surroundings with most of the natural game species roaming the reserve.
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Visit Nelspruit’s (Mbombela) Botanical Gardens - The Lowveld Botanical Garden is all about the two rivers that run through it; that fashion the garden with a unique quality of its own. The Crocodile River enters the garden with a tremendous rush, gushing through a narrow, pot-holed solid rock gorge, whilst its counterpart, the Nels River, cascades down a waterfall from the west – the two content to merge in a somewhat more gentle pool. The river banks are dominated by evergreen forest belts, and the eastern bank of the Crocodile River is a tropical African rainforest, representative of the rapidly diminishing rain forests in central and West Africa, and a world first for the Lowveld Garden.
So if you are visiting Nelspruit (Mbombela) while on business or for pleasure be shore to book your self-catering furnished accommodation through Feel-at-Home Accommodation, www.feel-at-home.co.za or give us a call on +27 82 940 1701 NOW to avoid missing all the wonderful things to do in the Nelspruit (Mbombela), Mpumalanga, South Africa area.