Tourism Information 

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June – winter temperatures
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Shopping and Points of Interest

The Capital Menlyn Maine complex offers banking services, various restaurants and shops.

Freedom Park & //Hapo Museum (Pretoria, South Africa)

The Park is located on a 52-hectare site on Salvokop in Pretoria – a vantage point that offers visitors a spectacular panorama of our capital city and beyond. The mandate of Freedom Park is the creation of a memorial and monument that will narrate a story spanning a period of 3.6 billion years through the following seven epochs: Earth, Ancestors, Peopling, Resistance and Colonisation, Industrialisation and Urbanisation, Nationalism and Struggle, Nation Building and Continent Building. This is displayed in the //hapo Museum. The name //hapo means „dream‟, which has been drawn from a Khoi proverb that translates into “A dream is not a dream until it is shared by the entire community”. The Park is also home to the Garden of Remembrance – to acknowledge those that contributed to the freedom of the country, and the Wall of Names – an awe-inspiring structure (697m), inscribed with the names of those who died during eight conflicts within South Africa’s history.

Maropeng Centre (approximately a one-hour drive from Pretoria)

The main building at Maropeng, called the Tumulus, emulates an ancient burial mound from the front, and in stark contrast, upon exiting, a very modern iconic structure is revealed. The architecture is symbolic of the journey through the evolution of life that is represented underground in the Maropeng Visitors Centre and the entire layout of the individual facilities across the site is based on the theme of constant discovery.

An original fossil display and a boat ride on an underground lake through the four lifegiving elements that combined to form the earth and shape the world as it is known today, are offered in the Maropeng Visitors Centre.

The Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg, South Africa)

This museum next to Gold Reef City, Johannesburg, illustrates the rise and fall of apartheid. Visitors walk through the 22 individual exhibition areas, which contain film footage, photographs, text panels and artifacts illustrating the events and human stories behind apartheid. At the end you’ll have a far deeper understanding of the why and how of apartheid and the new South Africa of today. The tour is self-guided, but our tour guide will be available to answer any questions.

The Elephant Sanctuary (Hartbeespoort, South Africa)

In the early 1900s the Magaliesberg Mountains were rich in wildlife and home to abundant herds of elephant. One hundred years later the elephants have returned to this area, to a special place in the heart of the beautiful African Bushveld. You will be hosted in small groups, by an experienced guide who will take you through an educationally orientated elephant experience. Guests are advised to wear comfortable clothing and flat, closed walking shoes… and definitely bring a camera!

Should you want to enjoy more of South Africa, you can make personal arrangements with Ulysses Tours and Safari. (at your own cost)

Ulysses Tours and Safaris, based in Centurion (Gauteng Province), is an incoming tour operator, specializing in tailor-made itineraries of tours or safaris for up-market FITs, groups, incentives and pre- and post conference tours. The tour company was established in 1996 and owns a fleet of air-conditioned microbuses, sedan cars and coaches.