Alkmaar Farmstay: About the Area
4x4 Trails & Training
After a basic training on this obstacle course everybody gets the change to try out there newly learned techniques on this 7 km route. After completion of this course everyone will get his/her certificate
The courses are for all 4x4 drivers, with or without any experience and also on all type of vehicles, the course is designed in such a why that the driver will get maximum advantage and service life out of his/her vehicle.
Mountain Biking - Trails & Routes
Mountain bikers paradise, a few km outside Nelspruit with a variety of long and short mountain biking trails to suit all rider skill levels from kids to novice to expert at Mankele Mountain Biking.
Other Activities
Lowveld Botical Gardens -- one of the finest and most interesting botanic gardens in South Africa, set in beautiful surroundings on the Crocodile River near Nelpruit. The gardens feature a number of unique botanical collections from a Cycad garden to a tropical forest containing a comprehensive variety of fig trees.
Tourist attractions in the area.
- Visit the Sudwala Caves - one of the major tourist attractions in the Crocodile River Valley and only 15 km from the farm.
- The road between Blyde River Canyon and Pilgrim's Rest is particularly scenic and overlooks the Blyde River.
- Pilgrim's Rest is rich in history with an array of fascinating old style shops to explore.
- Kruger National Park.
- Near the entrance bridge of Sabie are the Bridal, Lone Creek and Horseshoe Falls.
Bird Watching
Alkmaar Farmstay is a birdwatcher's paradise with nesting white fronted bee-eaters (arms-length from the beakfast nook), resident paradise flycatchers, purple crested loerie's fish eagles, kingfishers and long crested eagles being seen regularly.
We do trips to Mozambique (fishing, 4x4 sand driving course, scuba, dolphin encounters)
Fishing
Game Viewing
