Deep in the rugged bushveld, in the heart of an ancient volcano, lies the world's most unique resort, the internationally acclaimed
Sun City. This man-made complex is approximately a 2-hour drive from Johannesburg and houses the
2nd Largest Casino in the world - outside the USA. It has an entertainment area and is also well known for its golf course. The Lost City complex includes the majestic Palace hotel, it's own jungle, a large swimming area, artificial beach, waterfalls and streams. This vast complex, nearly 20 km in circumference, is an enormous, opulent extravaganza of luxurious hotels, glittering entertainment centres, restaurants, gaming rooms, shops, discos and extensive, beautifully landscaped grounds, rated among the world's most unusually conceived, and most lavish, inland resorts. The Resort has a unique heartbeat and an African rhythm of its own and is unlike any other Resort destination in the world.
The Pilanesberg National Park surrounds the entertainment complex of Sun City. The park is 55.000 hectares in extent. It is almost perfectly circular because it comprises the area of a 1200 million years old volcano crater with a small lake in the centre. Since late 1979, thanks to Operation Genesis - the largest game translocation ever undertaken at the time, tourists have been able to take note of nature's alphabet - from aardvark to zebra. The park boasts healthy populations of lion, leopard, black and white rhino, elephant and buffalo -
Africa's "Big Five". A wide variety of rare and common species exist with endemic species like the nocturnal brown hyaena, the fleet-footed cheetah, the majestic sable, as well as giraffe, zebra, hippo and crocodile, to mention but a few.
