Badplaas is situated in the grasslands region of Mpumalanga

Badplaas is situated in the grasslands region of Mpumalanga between Machadodorp and Carolina. Badplaas is a small resort town that is situated next to a hot sulphurous spring at the foot of the Ndlumudlumu (Swazi: Place of Much Thunder) range of hills. The springs bubble out of the ground at 30,000 litres an hour and was known by earlier inhabitants as Emanzana (Healing Waters). It has been said that the area around the spring was given to Jacob de Clercq by a Swazi chief in 1876, who then built a trading store here.

Accommodation in Badplaas

• Dawsons Game and Trout Lodge offers accommodation in Badplaas. A unique African Experience, at the head of the Nelshoogte Pass, Dawsons offers exclusive luxury in individually styled rooms. Rich décor creates an African ambience with elegant bathrooms and cosy fireplaces. All of our facilities are of the highest standard
• Avenura Badplaas. Resort accommodation in Badplaas. At the foot of Mpumalangas Hlumuhlumu mountains, 283km east of Johannesburg lies this Satour award winner famed for its hot mineral springs and surrounding Emanzana Nature Reserve. The modern Hydro offers 1, 3 and 5-day health and beauty treatments while the game reserve is habitat to white rhino and a variety of antelope.

Activities at Badplaas

• Mountain Trout Farm
• Scuba diving
• Crocodile Bridge Kruger Park
• Mountain Golf course (gravel road)
• Fishing / boating at the Vygeboom dam 

The small village of Badplaas is located in the extreme western corner of the Lowveld region. The town is well known for it’s hot sulphur spring, to which it owes it’s origin. The spring was presented as a gift to a white trader, Jacob de Clerq, by a Swazi chief in 1876. His trading store, close to the spring, became widely known during the years that followed. Today the spring has been developed into one of the country’s finest resorts, with swimming pools, mineral baths, luxury accommodation and conference facilities.

GENERAL INFORMATION

How to get there

Barberton 77 km, Carolina 49 km, Nelspruit 106 km

Average Temperatures

Summer 23°c – 33°c; winter 17°c – 23°c

Banks

No banks, only one Absa ATM at the Aventura Resort.

Dams

Vyeboom

Mountains

Jambila (Barberton), Red Hill (Carolina)

Rivers

Komati

ATTRACTIONS

Art & Culture

Aventura Resort Badplaas

At the foot of Mpumalanga’s Hlumuhlumu mountains, 283 km east of Johannesburg, lies this Satour awards winner famed for it’s hot mineral springs and surrounding Embuleni Nature Reserve. The modern Hydro offers one, three and 5 day health and beauty treatments while the game reserve is habitat to white rhino and a variety of antelope. The Swazis called it ‘talking mountain’. President Paul Kruger proclaimed it a ‘healing spring for the perpetual use of the nation’. Today Aventura Badplaas offers everything you would expect to find in a modern, well run resort. Twelve different types of accommodation to suit every lifestyle, a beautiful natural setting, a vast choice of indoor and outdoor activities and, of course, the famous mineral water. Float away your cares in the large open air hot mineral pool, the cool swimming pools or the modern Hydro Spa. Remember to take the kids along, children have their own hot and cold outdoor pools.

Umbitule Festival

It takes place during February / March annually.

ACTIVITIES

Outdoors

Bird watching

Diving

Freshwater diving at Badgat

Fishing

Hatchery

Hiking

Herbron, Kalkoenkrans (Horse and Hiking Trails), Shonalonga.

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