Lalapanzi Hotel Louis Trichardt

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Standard Rooms 15
There are 15 individually decorated rooms at Lalapanzi Hotel, either single or double Suites for families. All of the suites have en-suite bathrooms. Tea/Coffee facilities. Rates include: Room\Unit Only

Standard Self Catering 3
Includes: Room\Unit Only
The one self catering unit has 2 single beds and double sleeper. Microwave, stove, fridge, freezer, in kitchen. Large shower and big comfortable bathroom. The other two units have a double bed in each. Fully equipped.

De luxe Rooms 2
Includes: Room\Unit Only
Not self catering. Has double bed in each room.

De Luxe Self Catering 2
Includes: Room\Unit Only
Fully equipped. Air conditioning. One unit sleeps four and the other unit sleeps two people.

Dining
Breakfast in the restaurant plus a la carte restaurant on site for meals. Also ladies bar (Bull n Bush Ladies Bar) and sport bar (Horse & Cart Sport Bar). Wireless internet access.

Horses can also be stabled here. We are also a pet friendly establishment. We offer wireless internet connection to our guests.

Bush Camp
Secluded Bush boma. Situated 800 meters from the main hotel in the bushveld, small game and lovely bushveld sunsets can be experienced. Central fireplace, private bar facilities, 2 bathrooms with showers and baths, fully equiped kitchen with stove, fridge and cutlery. Camp with own tents or caravan, or enjoy a private function. Hotel can accommodate excess guests.

Caravan Park
Beautiful bushveld trees, grassed caravan park with power points.
· Close to swimming pool, trampoline, volley ball, restaurant and other hotel amenities.
· We can even send the waiter!!!
· Easy access from the N1.
· Caravan clubs, individuals, families and overlanders have extensively enjoyed our park.

Conference Centre
Two (2) Conference venues, both airconditioned. Lovedale Conference Hall can accommodate up to 40 people and Chandelier Hall can accommodate up to 300 people. Beautiful venue overlooking the bushveld and swimming pool. Adjoining the food and drink service areas, catering and serving is convenient.
White Board, Flip Chart, overhead projector, data projector, screen, sound system available.

Weddings

Ideal Family Wedding Venue;

Services can be sourced for:
· D.J. (sound),
· Wedding cakes,
· Flower arrangements

Lalapanzi Activities
Swimming, Cycling, Day walks, Trampoline , Volley ball, Skirmishes Museum, Curio shop.

Activities in the Surrounding Area
4x4 Trails, Arts & Crafts (Hop on Hop off Guide for half and full day tours to Elim)

Wildlife, Birding, Historical Sites (arrange well in advance for visits), Arcaeological Sites, Dzata Museum, Thate Vonde Lake and Forest, and Komatiland Hiking Trails. - More info obtainable from Lalapanzi

1. Entabeni Hiking Trail - The trail covers the eastern side of the old Soutpansberg hiking trail.
Komatiland Forestry has re-opened this beautiful are for hikers. Today, the route consits of two 16 km trails, each with aditional loops that cater for the hiker and serious exploring.

The Entabeni hiker`s hut is an old forestry building that has been renovated. The hut has 22 single beds with beautiful ablution facilities and an adjacent kitchen hut equipped with table benches, shelves, inside braai facility.

2. Soutpansberg Hiking Trail - Hanglip.
It starts at the Soutpansberg hut that is situated at the Hanglip forest station at Louis Trichardt.

Soutpansberg
Following the tracks of the Skirmishes, the Soutpansberg saw events that involved many British, Australian, German, Swiss, Portuguese, Dutch, North American Indian, local African and Boer involvement.

Stories of the Bushveldt Carbineers, Lovedale Park, Battle of Vliegenpan, Sweetwaters Hotel, will be told by a tour guide.

This route takes you through the area where the Vha-Venda, ma-Shangaan, isiSotho & Afrikaner are main cultural groups. View this at the Lalapanzi Skirmishes Museum.

The diversity of cultures is a major attraction in the rural areas through life styles, traditional dances, clay pots and wood-carvers.

The surrounding areas consist of a combination of montane forest, fynbos, plains, bushveld & sub-tropical habits. It boasts with 500 species of trees of which numerous species are endemic.

Amongst the vast number of bird species, raptors and vultures can be seen in surrounding conservancies.

Access gates of Pafuri & Punda Maria to the 2 million hectare Kruger National Park, which owes its heritage to the last president of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger, are most conveniently reached from our establishment.

The Surrounding Area
There are few places that give on a greater feeling of being in Africa, than the Soutpansberg bushveld region. The baobab tree, wonderful wildlife, an abundance of birds, fascinating history and cultures, makes it the ~Land of Legend~ There were times when beads and ceramics for the gold and ivory of the ancient African Kingdoms were traded from Mungubwe and Thulamela.

New cultural groups gradually moved in and the history of the Shangaan and Vhavenda became intertwined with the Voortrekkers to create a wonderful historical tapestry. Joao Albasini, the Portuguese trader who became headman of the Shangaans, Coenraad de Buys whose descendants still live in Buysdorp; and the Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt, after whom the principal town is named.

The western section of the region is dominated by the rocky spine of the majestic Soutpansberg (meaning 'saltpan mountain') range. The range, over 30 km wide features a fertile plateau, and features relics of the Stone Age people and their rock art.

Beyond the Soutpansberg the Limpopo Valley stretches across the country's northern border. The Limpopo River is a life-giver in the predominantly hot, dry land through which it curves and supports a series of small thriving farming villages.
The Soutpansberg area features over 500 tree species of which 6 are endemic. 465 species of birds, numerous mammal, reptile and amphibian species, butterflies are found here.

The mopani bushveld of the Soutpansberg is ideal for game farming and an increasing number of game reserves and conservancies cater for the growing demands of tourism. The area offers excellent hunting.

The Levubu River Valley is rich in sub-topical fruit plantations.

The Soutpansberg Region has been declared a Unesco World heritage Site, which gives new conservation status to the area. The major centres of the Soutpansberg include Louis Trichardt which has a well developed commercial infrastructure and is a major agricultural trading centre for cattle, fruit, cotton and game.

To the west is the farming town of Alldays, to the north Musina, situated a short distance from the Beitbridge border post to Zimbabwe. Thohoyandou and the surrounding Vendaland, are rich in natural beauty, holy sites and beautiful Holy lakes.

Museum
THE ZOUTPANSBERG SKIRMISHES ROUTE (ZSR)

This unique route was initiated in 2003 by Charles Leach and the late Andre Smit. Due to the are involved in the main focal issue – the Bushveldt Carbineers – the cooperation and interest of landowners, government and tribal authorities was the first obstacle.

These people and families, such as Hennings of Sweetwaters, the Hendriks of Vliegenpan and Spelonkwater, Hasane Chuke Clan, Elim Hospital, the Dept. of Water Affairs and Forestry – on whose property Old Lemana and Colonel Adolf Schiel’s fortified homestead stand, the Thomas family, John Mulungwa the present owner of East Lynne and the occupants of Lovedale Park are but a few of the many role-players who have become involved.

A base had to be established and this materialized through the interest and passion for heritage and history of the Gilfillan Family – Marius and Inga – the owners of Lalapanzi Hotel.This ZSR base has become the home of the Museum which is attracting international interest.

There could not be a better base for this route. It is on the N-1 some 28kms south of Louis Trichardt in Limpopo Province.

The Tudor style architecture of the hotel, complete with dove-cote in the garden and horses in the paddocks is so much part of the period – atmosphere and the 50-plus years of the hotel as a milestone in the Soutpansberg.

The Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) only affected the Soutpansberg-or Spelonkop, as it was known at that time-during the 3rd phase when Lord Kitchener instituted the in famous "scorched earth" policy which included the establishment of Concentration Camps and special mounted units consisting of “men who could shoot and ride” and who would presumably fight the remnants of the Boer Commanders on their own turf and so end the war.

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