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Why Bathurst?
Bathurst is ideal for the family. It does not have the wind
found at the coast yet is only 10 minutes from the beaches.
Normally about 2 degrees cooler in the Summer and 2 degrees
warmer in the Winter to the coast.
Hotel is comfortable walking distance to all Bathurst's National
Monuments and Waters Meeting Nature Reserve. Tennis courts
are across the road.
Things to do - include the tours plus beaches, nature reserves
and game reserves, Grahamstown, Salem, Hikes, Valley of the
Ancient Voices, Scuba diving, Deep Sea Fishing, Sky Diving,
Dam and River Fishing, Bathurst Agricultural Museum.
Your ideal base for touring this historic
region.
Historical sites
(national monuments) in Bathurst are:
- The Pig 'n Whistle
Hotel 1832
- Weslayan Church
1832
- St Johns Anglican
Church 1834
- Bleak House
1825
- Bradshaws Mill
1821
- Morley House
1835
- The Toposcope
1859
not
to be missed in Bathurst:
-
Bathurst Agricultural Museum (more than 1400 agricultural
implememnts)
- Horseshoe
Bend
- Waters
Meeting Nature Reserve
- The
Big Pineapple (the biggest pineapple in the world)
Nearby
are the wonderful beaches of Port Alfred and Kenton on Sea.
Kleinemonde, Historic Grahamstown and Salem. The game and
nature reserves of Thomas Baines, Shamwari, Kariega, Fish
River, Kap River, Kwandwe and Amakhala. |
