Plan your trip
Your holiday time is much too precious to be wasted on trying to find your way around. This page will give you a few suggestions that will save you time and will make your holiday experience stressless and enjoyable.
The area offers various activities and the Tour Operators featured are registered and well equipped to deal with your unique needs and desires.
Self drive tours
Adventure Tours
The gorges and mountains of Magoebaskloof and Georges Valley are ideally suited to outdoor activities.
Magoebaskoof Adventures offers the following:
• Abseil 30 metres down a smooth rock face
into the majestic George’s Valley gorge, landing in the Groot
Letaba River.
• The guided quad biking adventure takes you
on a specially made quad biking trail through the indigenous
forests along the Groot Letaba River and over the mountain
overl
ooking
the scenic Magoebaskloof.
• Experience the thrill of sliding through the forest on a
2 ½ hour Tarzan and Jane style adventure!
The Magoebaskloof
Canopy Tour takes people up into an inaccessible realm
of nature whereby platforms built high within the upper level
of indigenous forests or against the cliffs of ancient mountains
are joined by spectacular ‘foefie’ type cable slides high above
the forest floor and breathtaking waterfalls.
• The gecko-tubing trip
starts deep in the gorge at the beginning of the Groot Letaba
River and takes you through tranquil crystal
clear waters with breathtaking views.
• Kloofing in the scenic George’s Valley gorge
is for the more adventurous! Explore, float and swim down sections
of peaceful water as well as experience bum sliding, rock hopping,
hiking, abseiling and waterfall jumping into breathtaking pools!
• Our paintball course is situated in the
sun-shafted glades of the beautiful indigenous forest. Overalls,
guns, masks, gas and bullets supplied
• Experience river fly fishing deep in the
echoing gorge or exercise dam fly fishing in beautiful surroundings.
Clinic for beginners available
• School/Youth Camps: W we have incorporated
our outdoor eco-friendly tourism products into a range of experiential
learning programmes. This provides a natural learning environment
for self-discovery and potential development. Tented camp,
obstacle course, climbing wall and all adventure products
• Team building activities are designed to
assist with conflict resolution, improve communication, develop
trust and integrate members into a productive team. Year End
functions and staff incentive packages also arranged.
Contact Magoebaskloof Adventures for your
personal taylor-made package! +27 83 8661546
www.magoebaskloofadventure.co.za
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Satvik backpackers
Micro light flights in the Tzaneen dam
area may be arranged by appointment-
Louis +27 845562414
Guided Tours
Kurisa Moya and Woodbush Forest - David
Letsoalo
Guided birding tours at Kurisa
Moya and Woodbush Forest with accredited bird guides.
David Letsoalo is a qualified Birdlife SA guide with intimate
knowledge of the Woodbush forest area. He has been guiding
in the area for more than 3 years and has "stakeouts" for
most of the specials in the area like Cape Parrot, Bat Hawk,
Black-fronted Bush-shrike, Narina Trogon, Green Twinspot,
Orange Ground Thrush and many more.
He offers guided walks on Kurisa Moya to the various habitats
on the farm. Alternatively, he can guide birders to the local
birding hot-spots like Woodbush forest, Turfloop Dam, the
montane grassland habitats of the Blue Swallow, Polokwane
Game Reserve and environs or down to the tropical lowveld
of the Tzaneen area. Kurisa Moya guests enjoy reduced rates
for David's services. David's trip reports can be accessed
on the website, SA Birdnet or can be e-mailed to you if you
are interested.
David Letsoalo has been the focus of numerous
magazine and newspaper articles including Die Beeld,
Africa Birds and Birding Magazine, Limpopo Living Magazine,
The Star Newspaper and Country Life Magazine.He has also been
interviewed for television slots including Kaelo, Stories of
Hope and for BBC3. David is a living legend in the birding
world
Contact David on:
+27 15 276 1131 / +27 82 200 4596
Thomac CC has a reputation for very high quality 100% pure
wild crafted essential oils. Mark McMahon of Thomac was sourced
by a renowned NGO Group to distill Frankincense oleo-resins.
He was sponsored to fly to Somaliland to meet the harvesters
and merchants. Somaliland is a humble country and one of
its few sources of income is Frankincense. This is a development
and upliftment program. Please
click here to read full article of Marks trip to Somaliland
in the Dec/Jan 2006 issue of Odyssey magazine.
Thomac has a partner in Teubes, which is one of the largest
oil brokers in the world. They sourced Thomac CC as a partner
due to the news of excellent oils of which three are unique.
One of the oils, Southern Immortelle, has cured over 100
cases of sinusitis.
The distillation project was started because the owners of
Thomac wanted to conserve the natural grassland and mountain
forest on their farm in Magoebaskloof. The decision was not
to plant timber and respect Mother Nature.
The Distillation Plant
The distillation plant consists of two separate distillation
units which are made entirely of 316 grade stainless steel.
The larger of the two units, which runs on the dry-steam
method, is capable of handling 500 kilograms of herbaceous
plant material per charge.
The second unit is capable of handling 100kg of oleo-gum
resins per charge. The distillation facility was designed
and built by Mark himself. Mark also does consulting work
regarding distillation plant design, construction and operation
The second unit runs on the hydro-distillation method and
is used to process oleo-gum resins. These resins which include
frankincense are imported from The Republic of Somaliland
on the horn of Africa.
All the plant materials used are wild crafted which makes
them, to all intents and purposes, organic. The steam is
provided by a vertical water tube boiler which is fired by
a mixture of alien vegetation hard-woods i.e. Bluegum (Eucalyptus)
and Wattle (Acacia). The water used in the process is a mixture
of water drawn from a natural forest spring and rainwater.
The only by-product of the process is a distilled water containing
top-notes of the oils commonly known as a hydrolate...and
a little wood smoke!
Tour:
See how these unique oils are distilled. Tour of distillation
facility, informative talk and opportunity to purchase unique
products. Duration of tour approximately 1 hour.
+27 76 418 1238
/ www.thomac.co.za / info@thomac.co.za
Wegraakbosch Dairy has a particularly appropriate ambience,
with rolling 
hedgerowed
meadows, pastures and a very organic vegetable garden. The
cheese making process on this farm reminds one of another
older age and a more mellow pace of life. They follow the
traditions of the Swiss cheese makers where real Swiss cheese
is made by men, not machines. Cheese is made in a copper
cauldron over an open fire and everything is done by hand,
even the cows are milked in the old-fashioned way!!
A cheese tour combined with a with a cheese tasting and a
glass of good wine under the vines is the the only way to end
a perfect day. Nipper and Sylvia practices a strict organic
way of life and visitors can feel and see how a real organic
farm is supposed to operate!.
Tours
Cheese making tours are
conducted by appointment.
1. Cheese making tour approximately1 hour
2. Organic farming tour 1 hour.
3. Walk through indigenous forest. 1 hour.
4. Cheese platters by appointment.
Rates on request
+27 15 276 1811
/ +27 82 853 8754
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