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Only 10 minutes away from the hustle and bustle under clear African skies lies true colonial hospitality. Ilanga where the sun sets in peaceful tranquillity. A unique experience with real farm style friendliness, where you will feel at home away from home, whether relaxing in front of the fireplace in our formal lounge or just chilling in the pub and deck overlooking the property. Watch the sun creep through the trees while enjoying breakfast in the Owls Nest or just relax at our pool. For the more active try your luck at fishing in our dam or experience the African night sky, at our boma with a fire or a braai. Peaceful rest awaits in your comfortable room.

Ilanga also caters for small intimate garden weddings and conferences. Bordering the Ekurhuleni Agricultural hub, being part of the farmlands, yet close to Oliver Tambo International Airport and town - that’s us.

Use Ilanga Guest Lodge as your base or kick off point to explore our lovely country.

You may choose to take a tour or explore by yourself.

Boksburg Paintball - Blades & Triggers (+- 15 km)
Offers 5 playing fields.  Here they offer 2 paintball game formats - Bush ball and Air ball.

Microlight Adventure (+- 5 km) - www.microlightadventures.co.za
This is a flight school at Petit Airfield, which comprises a few sections of expertise.

Skydiving - www.icarus.co.za
Icarus Skydiving School offers accelerated free fall courses, static line and tandem jumps. Located in Edenvale.

Hot air balloon - www.balloon.co.za
Bill Harrop's "original" Balloon Safaris offers an unforgettable experience for individuals or groups.  They depart at dawn and the safari lasts about an hour and is preceded  by tea, coffee and biscuits and is followed by breakfast.

Shopping Centres

Endless shopping centres from as close as 10 km.  All with cinemas and restaurants:
-    Northmead Mall
-    Lakeside Mall
-    East Rand Mall
-    Carnival Mall
-    Eastgate Mall
-    Festival Mall

Ice Scating
Ice scating rink in Kempton Park.  Fun for the whole family. Secure inside shopping centre - Fetival Mall.

Casino's
Carnival City is only 15 km drive from the Lodge and have casino, restaurants, lazer tag, tempin bowling, live shows, entertainment area, cinemas and outdoor put-put and go karts.

Emperors Palace 20 km from Lodge - next to O.R. Thambo International Airport

Monte Casino - Whether your'e looking for the thrill of gaming, a memorable night at one of the theatres, an evening of side-splitting comedy, thrilling live concerts on their stages, magical events in the outdoor spaces, sports screening on the big screen, fine dining or fast food, luxurious hotel stays, shopping, the latest movie releases or fun and games for the whole family.

Action Cricket - Fun for everyone

Shooting Range (5 km) - Located in Pretoria Road. You can go and practice your shooting any time of the day.

Scuba Diving (8 km) - Anybody welcome to try a new experience.

Water Park (20 km) - In Boksburg we have Wild Waters - a beach within reach.
They have 9 thrilling water activities which includes:
The wave pool with real waves, super tube, speed hump, raging rapids, kiddies slides and kamakazi slides.

Flea Market
East Rand Traders Square Flea Market is one of the largest indoor flea markets.
The market is filled with all kinds of fascinating items, from unique clothing, bags and jewellery to arts and craft items.

Driving Range and Golf Courses
Kopanong Driving Range is only a mere 8 minute drive from Ilanga.  We have a lot of very nice Golf Courses close to us like Ebotse Golf Estate, Benoni Country Club, Benoni Lake Golf Course and ERPM Golf Course.

Nature Reserve

Dinokeng Nature Reserve - Spoil the family and go for a guided drive through the Dinokeng Nature Reserve.  This is the first free roaming big 5 residential game reserve in Gauteng and probably in the world next to an urbanized area.

Groenkloof Nature Reserve - This nature reserve features low broken ridges varying in steepness.  Wildlife includes zebra, jackal, duiker, kudu, impala, blue wildebeest, blesbuck, red hartebeest, ostrich, giraffe and sable.

Rietvlei Nature Reserve - Rietvlei dam was build during the great depression (from about 1929 to early 1930's) and was completed in 1934.  Feeding the dam is the Sesmyl spruit, five fountains and five boreholes.  The reserve is made up of open grassland with undulating hills with indigenous trees clustered in small groups.  The Reserve covers an area of 3800 hectares and can support up to 2000 head of game.  Game is readily seen along the roads ranging from cheetah to rhino.

Bungee Jump - www.orlandotowers.co.za
Orlando Towers offers you the first ever bungee and swing between two cooling towers, a whopping 100m  from the ground.
These two cooling towers are the largest and most colourful landmark in historial Soweto.

Gold Reef City - info@goldreefcity.co.za
Step back in time into the early gold rush days of early Johannesburg in this recreated city with cobbled streets and Victorian buildings.  Go down genuine old mine shaft, see gold poured and have a screaming good time on world class amusement park rides.

Hiking Trails
Hennops hiking trail offers hikers to experience one of the few unspoilt native areas near the Hartebeespoort Dam.

Lion Park
Only 50 min drive.  The Lion Park offers you a rare opportunity for close encounters with the king of the jungle.  You can see zebra, giraffe and various other plains antelope.  You can also feed the firaffe and touch a cub.

Apartheids Museum
Is situated in Johannesburg, dedicated to illustrate apartheid and the 20th century history of South Africa.  The museum has been critically acclaimed both in South Africa and internationally.  They have large blown-up photographs, metal cages and numerous monitors replaying apartheid scenes.

Cullinan Diamond Mine
Opened in 1902, Premier mine in the historic town of Cullinan recorded the largest gem diamond yet found, a massive 3106 carats.

Voortrekker Monument
This unique building in Pretoria commemorates the early pioneers of Southern Africa and records in detail the history of the Afrikaner people, from the earliest settlement of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company to the Great Trek and the migration of the Voortrekkers into the Highveld.

Elephant Sanctuary
The Elephant Sanctuary near Hartebeespoort Dam teaches visitors about the iconic African elephant through interactions and elephant-back safaris in a beautiful wilderness environment in the picturesque Magaliesberg.

4 x 4 Trail
Groenkloof trail have a fantastically fun route to drive.  This circular route is 14 km long and will take +- two hours.  The terrain consists of water, steep climbs and a rocky climb.

Zip lines (Canopy Tours - www.amazwingzwing.co.za
Try Ama Zwing Zwing Zap lines. Enjoy this unique adventure of sliding on steel cables while viewing game below.  Length is 1,3 km long with 7 slides.  Longest slide is 240 m long.

River Rafting - www.paddlepower.co.za
Paddle Power adventures offers river rafting.  Rafting down the Crocodile River is an ultimate adventure.

Archery
Guthries shooting range in Vorna Valley has a 20 yard indoor archery range, 60 m outdoor archery range and a SABS-accredited 25m indoor shooting range for handguns.  Another place where you can go is : Arrowrest is situated in Hartebeespoort and also offers bass fishing, 4 x 4 and paintball.


Activities
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