The most popular Pretoria tour options include the Pretoria city and Diamond Tour, the Pretoria and Lion park tour, the Full Pretoria City Tour
Book NowVOORTREKKER The majestic Voortrekker Monument is situated in the northern part of South Africa in the Pretoria (Tshwane ) region in a nature reserve, it is a unigue monument which commemorates the pioneer history of South Africa and history of the Afrikaner and is situated in a beautiful setting. UNION BUILDING The Union buildings is the home of the South African government and the office of the President of South Africa, on may 10, 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated here as South africa’s first democratically elected president, Accesss to the buildings is prohibited but the indigenous garden at the front of the buildings is open to the public. Looking for something different? Pretoria will not disappoint. FREEDOM PARK In carrying out its mandate, Freedom Park is committed to the following values: Tolerance of diversity, Inclusivity, Trust, Transparency & accountability
THE ONLY BIG 5 GAME RESERVE IN GAUTENG The Dinokeng Game Reserve is the first free-roaming Big 5 residential game reserve in Gauteng and probably in the world – next to an urbanized area. It is a private/public initiative for which planning and development started in the early 2000’s. It was officially opened on 22 September 2011 after the introduction of four of the Big 5. The last of the Big 5, the buffalo, were introduced in late 2012 and they have settled in well HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE DGR SELF-DRIVE ROUTE? The DGR Self-Drive was launched on 16 December 2014.There are various self-drive routes in the reserve for sedan and high clearance vehicles TSWAING Located about 40km northwest of Pretoria, Tswaing is a 1 946ha conservation area that is home to a meteorite impact crater and surrounding wetland, as well as the remains of an old salt factory Tswaing Crater, Soshanguve, Pretoria. Photo courtesy Paul Jacobson Tswaing, which means “place of salt” in Setswana, is the site where a meteorite half a football field in size slammed into the Earth 220 000 years ago, forming a crater 1.4km in diameter and 200m deep. This crater, formerly known as the Pretoria saltpan ( or Zoutpan) is one of about 170 impact craters in the world and one of four known impact craters in South Africa. The Tswaing Crater is covered in dense bush. Tswaing Lake, is 100m in diameter in the centre of the crater and is filled by rainwater and a spring. The lake once contained high concentrations of salt and soda ash that were mined for 44 years until 1956. The remains of the factory still stand near the lake Just east of the crater is the Soutpanspruit, which feeds a rare wetland system that is home to game, a large number of bird species, smaller mammals such as otters, genets, brown hyenas, civets and steenbok, reptiles and frogs. The Tswaing Crater site boasts one of only four meteorite crater museums in the world. Visitors are encouraged to take the 7.2km Tswaing Crater Trail one of three trails that lead to and from the crater rim, and peruse the museum display.
