SUNNYSIDE Attractions

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Sunnyside, Pretoria

Sunnyside is a suburb of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa. Sunnyside is on most bus routes (5 minutes to the city centre), near to most of the foreign embassies and within easy reach of major banks. Sunnyside offers excellent restaurants, many museums to explore as well as historical sites and parks. For the visitor to Pretoria Sunnyside is ideally located as it is within walking distance of the University of Pretoria, in close proximity to the popular Hatfield night spots and there are excellent shopping opportunities for the shopoholic.

Sunnyside's central location makes it an excellent location for the business traveller and there are many excellent guest houses and bed & breakfasts to choose from. For the leisure traveller, Sunnyside is close to the famous Union Buildings and Voortrekker Monument as well as many other museums and places of interest.

Featured Attractions in (or near) Sunnyside

Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary

If you grew up in the vicinity of Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, you will remember a time, during the 1970s, when the pink backed pelican bred here; and crowds of people came from all over Tshwane to watch the thousands of egrets, part of a large heronry that also developed here, come to roost in the ... more information

Pretoria National Zoological Gardens

This is one of the most famous zoos in the world and the largest in South Africa. The most interesting feature of the zoo is the aquarium and reptile park. Visitors can also take a ride in the famous cable cars which provide excellent views of the zoo and city. See the koala bear from Australia ... more information

South African State Theatre

The huge State Theatre complex in Church Street in Pretoria / Tshwane, with its five theatres and huge public square, opened in 1981 as a non-profit, government funded company famous for lavish productions that saw overseas opera singers and ballet dancers grace the huge main stage ... more information

Transvaal Museum of Natural History

On one of the major streets in the centre of Tshwane, the capital city of South Africa, lies what is regarded as the country’s leading natural history museum, open every day of the week. Founded in 1892, the Transvaal Museum of Natural History was originally buried away in a tiny room next to the clock tower on the ... more information

Union Buildings

Designed by Sir Herbert Baker and completed in 1913. Considered by many to be the architect's greatest achievement & South Africa's architectural masterpiece. This was the setting for President Nelson Mandela's historic inauguration in 1994. The spacious, terraced gardens command fine views of the city ... more information

Voortrekker Monument

The huge monolith that is the Voortrekker monument stands as a major landmark on a low hill, just outside Tshwane (as Pretoria is now called). Depending on who you are, the monument that has some of the finest sculpture work in the country is either a reminder of apartheid or an important memorial for ... more information

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