Blinkpan, Cultural Heartland
Blinkpan, contrary to its name's suggestion that it is but a flash in the pan, is a pretty little rural town that provides a peaceful, country-style setting for Gauteng holiday makers intent on getting away from it all, just 45 kilometres from Ogies on the Ermelo line (which gives you an indication of just how 'out of the way' it is, even if it has a station).
It lies south of Middelburg and east of Johannesburg, just off the N11, and is en route to the Lowveld, making it an ideal stopover or just somewhere to lose yourself for a weekend. Unsurprisingly, this part of the world is given over largely to farms, and maize, potatoes and sunflowers grace the fields on the side of roads.
Whilst the little town may have its own golf club, there is little else in the way of tourist attractions here to disturb your stay - the largely grassland area is devoid of noise, and tourists. Pretty tree-studded farms, with veldt as far as the eye can see allow one to unwind. A large part of this landscape is available for beautiful hikes and 4X4 trails, whilst visitors can also look forward to a number of industrial and agricultural tours to local farms and collieries.
Wild flowers in and around Blinkpan (cosmos is rampant during spring) are one of the highlights, particularly the local cycad indigenous to the region, whilst the influences of the local Ndebele are evident throughout the locale where their brightly painted houses and huts hint at the bead work and crafts which are available at a number of cultural villages in Mpumalanga.
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Hotels & other accommodation options
Sterkfontein Guest House
Situated in Middelburg, Sterkfontein Guest House is a luxury guest house offering six en-suite rooms. Easily accessible from the N4, the guesthou...
Farmstay @ Glen Cullen
Farmstay @ Glen Cullen is centrally situated in Middelburg. Glen Cullen is a private country estate where guests can enjoy a view of the dams, we...
The Plantation Guesthouse
The Plantation Guesthouse is located in Middelburg. A total of fifteen guests can be accommodated. Middelburg is approximately 1, 5 hours drive f...
Alveston Manor
Situated in the picturesque town of Middelburg, The Alveston Manor is a small hotel with a traditional name conforming to an elegant era backed b...
Feathers Bed & Breakfast
Feathers is ideally situated in close proximity to the Middelburg CBD and is easy to find! It is situated in the beautiful upmarket tranquil subu...
C'est La Vie Boutique Hotel
The C'est La Vie Boutique Hotel offers upmarket and luxurious accommodation in a beautifully restored historical house in a quiet and tranquil ar...
Pillars Accommodation
Pillars is located in a quiet upmarket neighbourhood of Middelburg in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Pillars offers four different self catering units...
Krk Holiday Home
Krk Holiday Home is a beautifully furnished self-catering holiday home in Groblersdal located in the secure Royal Palms Estate, just 3km from Gr...
Noteworthy attractions
Loskop Dam Nature Reserve
The well known Loskop Dam Nature Reserve can be found deep in the Cultural Heartland of South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province. The Loskop Dam is a 2...
Botshabelo Mission Station
The Botshabelo Mission Station was originally a place of refuge for Christians in South Africa and grew into an important and rather influential ...
Lanatus Cycad
The beautiful Lanatus Cycad can be found in the Cultural Heartland of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Indigenous and unique to the area, there is an ab...
Middelburg Country Club
Middleburg Golf Course is located on the edge of Middleburg in the flat savannah lands of Mpumalanga. The course has a huge history and was origi...
Fort Merensky
Fort Merensky was built to protect Botshabelo (place of refuge), a mission station established just 5 km north west of Middelburg, in the 1860s b...
Groblersdal Golf Club
As the country’s second-largest irrigation settlement, Groblersdal is all about agriculture. However, this little farming town is also the proud ...
Witbank Golf Club
The coal mining hub of Witbank is a significant part of South African history, and is situated in Mpumalanga’s Highveld. It is frequented by trav...
Mkhombo Nature Reserve
There are few things as dreamy and memorable as the grasslands and rolling hills that rise to meet the high blue of an African sky. And this is t...
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