Sun City Resort is unique in nature with its own African culture. Visiting this resort is dreamlike where you can indulge yourself in every desire. There are four premier hotels, including the majestic Palace of the Lost City. This hotel is like a jewel. The surroundings comprise of the beautiful rain forests. The design of the hotel is intended to draw feelings of opulence and awe.

Each of the four hotels has a unique style of accommodation with characteristic ambience and style. Cabanas offers you your money’s worth with luxurious accommodation for your entire family. You will get your money’s worth no matter whether your interests lie in family fun or individual relaxation.

Adjacent to the resort is the fabulous Pilanesberg National Park. It is part of the Big 5 of Africa and is also free from malaria. It is a paradise for game viewers and bird lovers.

The guides are professionals with in-depth knowledge of the flora and fauna of Pilanesberg. The 580-km stretch of wildlife is diverse among the bushveld. The park houses the Big Five, which is nothing but the presence of five species of lions, leopards, rhinos, elephant, and buffalo.

The safari is home to the one of the largest volcanic surroundings of the world. The nature of rocks makes it a geological goldmine. The city is ancient and the former volcano is a fine demonstration of an alkaline ring complex. The park contains rare minerals. Most of them are not important economically. It is, however, a geological landmark of the world.

The facilities for golfing are the best at Sun City. South African golfer, Gary Player, designed two golf courses. The courses are open for both professionals and amateurs. The Titleist Golf Academy offers training to budding golfers.

The Lost City Golf Course provides an 18-hole course with a magnificent backdrop of South Africa’ bushveld. The 13th hole is special as it features water inhabited by Nile crocodiles. This makes it one the most exciting golf courses of the world.

Sun City offers unique activities which are fun and exciting. Some of the activities include elephant riding, quad biking, archery, and clay pigeon shooting.

Take an elephant ride for up to an hour. Boarding the saddled elephants gives a joy that is unparalleled. You will need to enter the ‘Elephant Wallow’ to avail the rides. Witness the wildlife of the area through quad bikes. You need not have any prior experience in biking as you will be accompanied by guides.

The ancient art of archery can be mastered at Sun City. Archery makes use of modern equipment. Experienced instructors are always at hand to guide you. With the 12-gauge shotgun, you can try shooting clay pigeons. It is sure to exhilarate you.

Tremendous care is imparted to the wildlife from all over South Africa. The wildlife is not housed permanently. They are released in their natural habitats once they are fully fit. Some injuries are permanent in nature. Such species cannot be returned to their natural habitats. In such cases, they serve as a means of study and research.

Some of the wildlife species are cared for because they belong to the endangered species. These species undergo specific breeding programs. The crowned eagle and serval are two such endangered species. The Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre is the only place in the whole of South Africa to successfully breed the crowned eagle.

The centre runs entirely on funds from the public. The rehab centre was operational from the year 1992. Wildlife enthusiast, J.A. Strijdom’s, game farm has been used as the premises for the centre. Brian Jones is credited as the founder of the center. He is said to have brought a crowned eagle and a day-old zebra on his visit. Through word-of-mouth the fame of the rehab centre spread far and wide.

As the costs of medicines and food grew, the centre began to impose an entrance fee. The guided tours, too, began to get popular.

Visiting the centre gives you a hands-on view on the rehabilitation work carried out. You will also get a sense of the conservation strategies to protect wildlife. Make the most of the guided tours to witness the range of wildlife species. Lions, leopards, cheetah, caracal, servals, and eagles are found in large numbers. Also common are lynx, honey badger, marshal eagle, vultures, and young offspring of common species.

If you do not wish to avail the guided tours, rent a car to explore the rehabilitation centre. By renting a car, you can view the rehabilitation centre at your own leisure.

To create a national park on and around Mount Kenya, the Government of Kenya had four distinct reasons. To boost up the local and national economies there is a need of tourism, to preserve the biodiversity within the park, to protect it as a great scenic beauty and to safeguard the water catchments for the neighboring area.

The local inhabitants respected the mountain for generations and the mountain is the official home of ‘Ngai’, the Kikuyu tribe’s Supreme Being. Johann Ludwig Krapf was the first to sight the snowy peak in 1849. The meaning of Mount Kenya or “Kere Nyaga” is the Mountain of Brightness as the Kikuyu call it, rising above the sea level to 5,199m and in the entire continent of Africa it is the second highest mountain peak.

The Mount Kenya national park covers an area of around 715 square kilometers which is 276 sq miles and the forest reserve covers an area of 705 square kilometers that is 272 sq miles. The forest reserve and the national park collectively make an area of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that covers 1,420 square kilometers which is about 548 sq miles.

This park offers a beauty of its own with pleasant mountain scenery that attracts more tourists to come and share the glory of the heavenly world especially the mountain climbers who leads to the top of the mountain through difficult routes. The Volcanic deposit in the nearby area’s soil and the vast quantity of fresh water coming down the slopes makes the agriculture area more favorable.

Lovely lakes, tarns, glaciers, peaks and natural mineral springs make the area more stunning. In the lower slopes dry upland forests are found and from the 2,000m upwards montane forest starts. This forest usually includes cedar and podo. Visitors can watch a mixture of plants of nearly 11 species.

Wildlife live in the park are extensive and some are unique on their own like Colobus Monkeys, Cape Buffalo, elephants, black rhinos, leopards etc. Bongo antelopes and giant forest hogs are out of few that attracts more tourists on the park including many species of birds like Kingfisher, Olive pigeons and red-fronted parrots.

One could reach easily to this famous and excellent spot by flying to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and Wilson Airport. Apart from this you can also travel by train and reach to Thika Station that will lead you to this national park. Well, you can also take bus services to Nanyuki from Nairobi. If you are willing to travel through car, take an A2 that will take you from Nairobi traveling across Murunga and later going through Mount Kenya and making way to Nayunki.

After reaching there you can stay at the lodges present in the park or at various types of huts like seven climbers’ huts. Outside the park, there are self-help banda sites where you can easily stay. Well, most of the visitors stay in hotels or resorts. For luxury, the Mount Kenya Safari Club is the best place to stay.

Temperatures, rainfall and humidity vary widely in Kenya due to its diverse geography. Hence, the best time to visit the national park is from July to February.

Mount Kenya is the place where tourists can find almost everything to enjoy their time with snow-covered mountaintops as well as large cliffs and glaciers. Along with that there are thick forests and pouring waterfalls to boost the energy of the people. So, try out and see the change in your life as if you are in heaven.