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The Explorers Club

 

THE EXPLORERS CLUB is a private Hiking and Exploring organization (“the Club”) located in Graskop Mpumalanga. Since Graskop offers an abundance of places of interest, breathtaking views and opportunities for great excursions, we strive to support outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy most of what this area has to offer. We welcome adventurous visitors to come and explore this exceptional region and enjoy memorable events with us. The Club is a division of a professional project management firm, Jersey Project Management (Pty) Ltd (JPM), who develops projects in the tourism industry under the name and instance of myGraskop.com. As such JPM also manages and facilitates all private event reservations made at the Explorers Club. The Explorers Club was established in 2015 and is permanently based in Graskop.

HIKING AND EXPLORING

Our area offers a wealth of places of interest and the Explorers Club is not only about hiking on lengthy trails or taking on extreme mountaineering challenges. Most of our guests visit the area for a day or two and require excursions limited by available time. Our excursions are often restricted to short day or half day events combined with short drives in-between hiking locations and comfortable overnight accommodation in town. This allows for visits to some of the most popular places of interest in the area – which usually are coincidental and part of excursions whenever opportunities arise. We go on trails unknown to the general public, swim in crystal clear mountain streams, play on tubes at majestic waterfalls and snorkel to explore the wonders of our beautiful mountain rock pools. We are not activity service providers, tour operators or travel agents. And although we join our guests on most excursions, we are not tour guides who charge fees for guiding or touring with them.

ACCOMMODATION

We have Clubhouses which are the centre of all our operations. Each of them has a number of guestrooms that offer comfortable, safe and proper accommodation for visiting guests. Our Clubhouses are not hotels, commercial guesthouses, lodges or holiday resorts. We are explorers and we focus on exploring nature rather than trying to impress anyone with our accommodation. But our clubhouses are proper, neat and clean, properly equipped, well furnished and we work really hard to equal any commercial guesthouse accommodation in the area. We do not charge our explorers for accommodation at our clubhouses in any way.

 


OUR EXCURSIONS

THE PANORAMA EXCURSION

Where rivers meet with waterfalls and majestic mountains appear through the mist, nature comes alive in the fairytale land of true wonders. This is Eden, the land of the great BLYDE RIVER CANYON situated at the magnificent Drakensberg escarpment of Mpumalanga. It is the 3rd largest canyon on earth (second only to the Grand Canyon and Namibia’s Fish River Canyon), but the greenest and most alive of them all. The panoramic area of the Blyde River Canyon offers exquisite settings and hosts the rich history of indigenous ethnic communities that settled here during the 19th century. By exploring the PANORAMA ROUTE we follow the trails of ancient Chiefs and uncover the splendour of their kingdoms.


THE LIONS CREEK EXCURSION

This is a full day exploring excursion on the Panorama Route that comprises a short 3km hike from the upper pools at the top of a massive waterfall to the caves below and the bottom pools of the falls. The area offers an adventure never to forget. The hike takes you to spectacular viewpoints, concealed caves behind a waterfall, hidden potholes, crystal clear rock pools, a fairy forest, and the bottom pools of the falls.
This excursion allows for extraordinary Hiking, Swimming, Tubing and Snorkelling – and the views on the hike are spectacular. Opportunities to explore are in abundance. It never disappoints!


THE FANN FALLS EXCURSION

In South Africa, the enormous plains of the Highveld come to an unexpected end at the immense Drakensberg Escarpment. Rivers turn into waterfalls and plunge over its rim and into the misty forests of the 3rd largest canyon on earth – The Blyde River Canyon. FANN FALLS is located on private land in the upper parts of this immense Canyon and is accessible by hiking there only. The starting point of the hike is about 20km from Graskop from where the hike follows the river on a 4 km trail that passes through stunning rock formations and wildlife on your way to the bottom of the falls. Fann Falls is characterised by enormous rock boulders towering from its rock-plated pools and crystal clear water which allows for excellent swimming, tubing and snorkelling. The place is an explorer’s paradise!


THE PANORAMA SNORKELLING TOUR

Join us on a 1 or 2-day Snorkelling Excursion and discover a world submerged in crystal clear river potholes and waterfall pools hidden on the immense Drakensberg Escarpment. We explore no less than 6 breath-taking snorkelling sites at different locations – in several river gorges, on the Panorama Route and even high up inside the magnificent Blyde River Canyon. Along the route, we snorkel the pools of magnificent waterfalls, hike down spectacular river gorges, and visit deserted falls in the upper parts of the Canyon. The tour itinerary is easily adaptable to fit our guests’ available time and fitness levels. For our inexperienced guests, a short practical introduction to basic snorkelling techniques precedes every tour.

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