Sub-tropical Hazyview offers a year-round climate for visitors and is the perfect base to explore the scenic wonders of the escarpment. A healthy farm breakfast will set you up for the day or leave early with a picnic basket for a game drive in the Kruger National Park. Golf, tennis, bowls, trout-fishing, hot-air ballooning and horse-riding are all available nearby. Golf Courses in the Area:
South African National Parks (SANParks) Experience the beauty and diversity of South African National Parks, Travel and explore South Africa! Web Site: http://www.sanparks.org/ This site hosts details of South African National Parks, their camps and wildlife and community relations. It will help tourists and visitors with planning trips to the parks - self drive safaris, game viewing, accommodation tariffs, adventure activities such as guided walks and hiking, bird-watching, 4x4 trails, sightseeing, cultural and historical experiences, mountain biking, golf, canoeing, swimming and many more. You can also learn how to become an honorary ranger or how to take part in organised events within these conservation areas. The Blyde River Canyon The third largest canyon in the world and the largest green canyon. Magnificent views from God’s Window, Bourke’s Luck Potholes, World’s View and The Three Rondavels. w, Bourke’s Luck Potholes, World’s View and The Three Rondavels. God’s Window is a spectacular 1000m drop on the edge of the Escarpment. Incredible views across the Kruger National Park into Mozambique.
Hazyview is ten minutes away from the world-famous Kruger National Park and even closer than ever with the opening of the new gate at the Albasini Ruins. Nearby Sabie and Graskop have a superb variety of interesting rock formations and waterfalls, including the Macmac Falls, Forest Falls, Lisbon Falls and Lone Creek Falls Hazyview Hazyview is strategically situated 35kms east of Sabie and 17km west of the Kruger National Park, midway between the spectacular scenery of the great escarpment and the world-famous game lodges - a town on a crossroads, where six major roads, all leading to different tourist attractions, converge. Within a short drive of Rissington Inn are the Numbi, Phabeni and Paul Kruger Gates of the world’s largest Game Reserve. The Blyde River Canyon, the third largest in the world, with magnificent views and drops as deep as 3000ft (1000m) is half an hour away, as are God’s Window, a sweeping view over the Lowveld from high up on the escarpment, Bourke’s Luck Potholes - where the Blyde and Treur rivers meet, causing fascinating rock foundations - and Pilgrims Rest, the restored gold rush town, home of Jock of the Bushveld.
Not to mention all the magnificent waterfalls, superb and varied scenery, deep and wonderful caves and plenty of history from Bushmen to Voortrekkers…. The first recorded mention of Hazyview was by Harry Wolhuter, the famous Kruger National Park ranger. His life was saved here by Perry, a French-Canadian member of Steinaecker’s Horse, a cavalry regiment in the Anglo-Boer War. Wolhuter was suffering from Black Water fever. Perry was granted a farm on the Sabie River by the government and there he founded a trading store. He had no family and on his death he willed the farm to Wolhuter, who was obliged to sell it to liquidate his debts. The village of Hazyview was officially promulgated in 1959 when the first Post Office was established and Hazyview station came into being when the old Selati line was re-routed outside the Kruger National Park at Kaapmuiden in the late 1960’s. Hazyview is now not only a tourism hub, but also a thriving farming community - a centre for the farming of bananas, coffee, avocados, mangoes. lychees, citrus fruits and macadamias among other things. More than half of the world’s bananas are grown within 100km of Hazyview and the ground is so fertile it is said that if you planted a gum boot you’d grow a rubber tree! The bananas were planted in the 1950’s and since then the number of farms has grown and grown. Hazyview is the perfect place for a base for a holiday - golf, tennis, bowls, horse-riding, squash, river-rafting, bird-watching, hiking, mountain biking, history tours and magnificent game-viewing are all available and to be strongly recommended.
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