Sun City Sports & Outdoors

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This impressive bridge, guarded by mighty elephants, serves to link the Hall of Treasures in the Lost City Entertainment Centre with the Valley of Waves.

In order to protect the incalculable riches which lie hidden in the Hall of Treasures, an ingenious mock-volcano regularly erupts, causing smoke and lava to bellow forth from deep within the Temple of Creation.

This bridge is the link between the Valley of the Waves, and the entertainment center at the Lost City.

It is guarded by sculptured elephants on either side, watching over you as you walk along it! Suddenly, you feel the earth below you move as a mock volcano erupts! There is smoke and lava and a huge noise – a bellow – from the Temple of Creation.

All very fanciful and in good fun :)

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There are plenty of sports to partake in at Sun City.

On the lake there is jet-skiing, water skiing and parasailing.

There is a world class golfing range, where world championships are held annually.

The grounds are large, so if you feel like a good walk then this is a perfect (and beautiful) place to do it.

There is an indoor bowling alley and gym for residents too.

There is really no reason NOT to do some form of exercise here.

There are plenty of sports activities for adults and children at the resort.

This area has a variety of quad bikes and scooters for kids to play on.

It is well supervised and safe.

Other family leisure activities are tempin bowling and out put... good for exercise but easy going!

Equipment: They will supply everything you need.

Bets to wear your tackies/trainers/sneakers though!

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The golf course is world renowned, and are unquestionably one of the finest courses in Africa, and the world.

International competitions are held annually here, one being the Nedbank Golf Challenge.

One of the most well known South African golfing sportsmen is Gary Player. He was around before the Ernie Els era, and (to me) paved the way for budding sportsmen and women in this field.

He opened the Gary Player Country Club here. It has a health spa, a putting green and gold pro shop for all your necessities.

He helped design the two golf courses. It has 18 holes and is beautiful, not only in it layout, but the views of the surrounding bushveld is spectacular. You feel like you are in the middle of Africa (and of course, you are!)

One thing this course has that others don’t, are live crocodiles at Hole 13! 38 in total. They certainly add a certain excitement to the game!You have to use a gold cart here as the area covers 100 hectares of land, with many water features imbetween.

Whether skilled or a novice, this course is thoroughly enjoyable for all, with coaching available too.

The botanical gardens have a wide variety of flora and fauna. Established in 1998, it today has over 1,6 million different types of shrubs and trees, with about 3,200 different species.

It portrays different regions: Dry region, rain forest, coastal and wetlands.

This is such a stunning ride! Breathtaking even!

You hurtle through dark tunnels (the old diamond and gold mines of an ancient civilisation) on a tube at high speeds, screaming your lungs out!

Great fun if you arent a little claustrophobic!

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There are a few pools to laze around, they are large and in excellent condition.

If you are a guest in one of the hotels, it seems they don’t mind if you laze at any of the three hotel pools.

Our favoured pool is naturally the Valley of the Waves :)

It is like a pool for most of the time, and then becomes somehtign different every half an hour, when the mechanic waves start!

It is then like surfing in the sea. Great fun!

This is for me the highlight of this water park. They have huge waves (sometimes reaching 3 metres high), you can surf on them, and swim in them. The beahc has real sand. It does feel strange though to swim in waves that are not salt water though :)

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