Top Things to Do with Kids at Hartbeespoort Dam

Hartbeespoort is a veritable PLAYGROUND of activities. We have selected the best activities for good, family fun with children of all ages.

Just a short 40 minute drive from Sandton or Pretoria, Harties is the ideal family holiday breakaway. Get the most out of your vacation with our selection of kid-geared activities and venues.

Hollybrooke Farms – Cowboy Style Fun!

Give your kids the adventure of their lives with a weekend of ranch style livin’ at Hollybrooke Farms. Self-catering family cottages are rustic, offering families a weekend of old fashioned simplicity. Leave the iPad at home and discover quality family time again!

Day Trip Activities include Horse riding with out-rides through the river. Quad Bike trail rides offer adrenaline adventure through a game farm. The Orango Tango Zipline course is interspersed with ‘Fear Factor’ style challenges to thrill kids with even more fun!

Find out more on the Hollybrooke Farms Website…

Magaliesberg Canopy Tour

The youngest to complete the canopy tour was two years old. The oldest over eighty years old. Certainly an experience for all ages…

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The Magalies Canopy Tour offers a series of beautifully scenic zipline slides across the natural gorge, offering a Tarzan-like experience over tree-tops and up against cliff face platforms.

Van Gaalen Cheese Farm – Picnic Playground of Pleasure

Children and cheese go together like, well, fish and chips, bacon and eggs, peas and carrots…

Van Gaalen Cheese Farm is a working farm producing Dutch cheeses by the authentic Dutch method. Enjoy an information packed cheese tour with a smorgasbord of flavoured cheeses to sample followed by a relaxing lunch in the Al Fresco style restaurant or take a picnic basket to the farm dam. Children can get up close to the farm animals, play on the jungle gym and, of course, the old farm tractor is the premium attraction for the under four set!

De Vette Mossel Restaurant Harties – Kids Kinda’ Night Out

What could keep a child out of your entree better than an enormous sandpit? De Vette Mossel Restaurant offers the most child-friendly environment of ANY restaurant in the country. Designed to resemble the original beach restaurant at Mossel Bay, the venue is like a beach oasis on the Highveld. Marquee tents, open fires to cook an eat-as-much-as-you-can multi-course seafood menu and of course, beach sand! Kick off your shoes, drop a couple of buckets and spades for the kids and your evening of gourmet entertainment is set. Invite the extended family and enjoy BYO hospitality without a care in the world.

See more on De Vette Mossel Seafood Restaurant website…

Boat Cruises – Brave New Sightseeing Tours for All Ages

Nothing appeals to children more than a boat ride! Hartbeespoort has a number of reputable boat companies offering gentle sightseeing cruises around the dam. Take a simple sightseeing trip with Toro Ya Me Cruises fun and adventure with Harties Watersports Centre or enjoy an extended lunch or sunset cruise with Harties Boat Co.

Aerial Cableway Hartbeespoort – A Gentle Trip to the Heavens

The Aerial Cableway is the premier sightseeing attraction in Hartbeespoort. Enjoy a scenic trip skywards in a gondola and watch as the panorama of Hartbeespoort Dam opens out before you. Children are prone to run freely along the cobbled mountain pathways, possibly catching a dassie or two unawares. The restaurant at the summit of the mountain offers some of the best pizza’s in town. When weather conditions are right, local paraglider pilots launch their winged gliders from the summit providing hours of awed delight for children as they soar above their heads.

Find out more about the amenities at Aerial Cableway…

Welwitschia Country Market – Weekend Kids Activities

The Welwtischia Country Market is always an interesting excursion; 40 stalls with hand-crafted delights, 3 restaurants and a rabbit warren of pathways to explore within a natural environment, but Sundays are particularly child-orientated! Face-painting, Jumping Castle, Jungle Gym and Hair Spray is just some of the activities kids will love. Pick-a-Pancake Restaurant, of course is a MUST visit!

Ama Zwing Zwing Zipline Tour – Sliding into Happiness in Harties!

Ama Zwing Zwing Zipline Tour offer a series of easy to mount zip slides over wild game at Amanzingwe Lodge. Special rates for children make this an affordable family adventure which includes a lodge meal voucher so you can tell everyone about your fun time out over a cold milkshake or chilled beer after!

Hartbeespoort Snake & Animal Park – Family Outing

Hartbeespoort Snake & Animal Park is snuggled against the foot of the Magaliesberg on the eastern shore of Hartbeespoort Dam, lies this most remarkable private Park, surrounded by massive walls like those of a medieval castle protecting a rare gem.

Within these walls, a world has been created where visitors can experience the essence of what makes Hartbeespoort Dam unique, the presence of animals, water lapping at stonewalls and jetties, giant tress, exotic foliage and towering cliffs.

The park has the most interesting Snake and Seal show held on Public Holidays, School Holidays and weekends at 12H00 and 15H00. It is a show not to be missed.