Busa House

Start your road trip along the Panorama Route locally. There are vintage cars and motor bikes to be seen at the Car Museum (10 minutes’ drive), and riverside trails through the verdant Lowveld Botanical Garden (15 minutes). Graskop (an hour) is the main hub of the route – from there you can access rock formations including Pinnacle Rock standing over Driekop Gorge, dramatic cascades at Lisbon and Berlin Falls, and Bourke’s Luck Potholes in the Blyde River Canyon. And there’s another major attraction close by too, in the shape of Kruger National Park: the Numbi Gate entrance is 45 minutes’ drive away and springboard for guided safari tours to (hopefully) spot big cats, elephant herds, hippos, giraffes, rhinos… not forgetting hundreds of bird species such as eagles, vultures and storks. If the kids are with you, they’ll also likely be entranced by the subterranean caverns at Sudwala Caves (45 minutes), and a stroll past life-size models of prehistoric velociraptors in the adjoining Dinosaur Park.