Nelspruit Car Hire
Car Rental Services offers you low cost car hire in Nelspruit, Piet Retief, Secunda and Witbankwith car rental branches conveniently located all over Mpumalanga. Our car hirerates are inclusive of all insurances and taxes and may also include unlimited mileage and a zero excess. We rent cars from Nelspruit's top car rental companies, offering you a wide choice of vehicles ranging from economy to luxury rent a cars. Car Rental Services will find you the best deal for car rental in Nelspruit, Witbank, Secunda and the rest of Mpumalanga.
Contact us to start the easy reservation process to book car hire in Nelspruit and the rest of Mpumalanga. Low cost and best value car hire in Nelspruit, Witbank, Piet Retief and Secunda is what we would like to offer you. We can arrange car hire with Europcar car hire, National rent-a-car, Avis, Alamo car hire, Hertz car rental, Budget car hire and other well known car rental companies.
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Satellite Navigation and Smart Tour Guide
Satellite navigation includes our unique Smart Guide, a must for all Mpumalanga self drive travelers. Enjoy a guided tour including useful information about South African history, fauna and flora, food, local entertainment, what’s hip, hot and happening in the vicinity as you drive past. A daily service fee applies.
Nelspruit Car Rental - Mpumalanga Location Information
NELSPRUIT AIRPORT CAR HIRE
Kruger Mpumalanga Airport, Nelspruit
Station Code: NELA
Tel: 013 751 2872
Fax: 013 750 2866
Emergency: 082 305 0019
Mon - Fri: 07:00 - 17:30
Sat: Closed
Sun & Public Holidays: Meet reservations
PIET RETIEF CAR RENTAL
Bossie Inn, 22 Mark Street, Piet Retief
Station CODE: PF
Tel: 017 826 3285
Fax: 017 826 3285
Mon - Fri: 08:00 - 17:00
Sat - Sun: Closed
Public Holidays: Meet Reservations
SECUNDA CAR HIRE
Vos Viljoen & Becker Building, Horwood Avenue Secunda, Mpumalanga
Station Code: SEC
Tel: 017 634 1722
Fax: 086 686 2831
Mon - Fri: 07:30 - 17:30
Sat - Sun: Closed
Public Holidays: Meet Reservations
WITBANK CAR RENTAL
Engen Garage, 2 Watermeyer Street, Witbank, Mpumalanga
Station Code: WIT
Tel: 013 656 1315/3490
Fax: 013 690 1441
Mon - Fri: 07:30 - 17:30
Sat - Sun: Closed
Public Holidays: Meet Reservations
MPUMALANGA INFORMATION
Mpumalanga - "the place where the sun rises" - is a province with spectacular scenic beauty and an abundance of wildlife, lying in the northeast of South Africa. Bordered by the countries of Mozambique and Swaziland to the east and the Gauteng to the west, it is situated mainly on the high plateau grasslands of the Middleveld, which roll eastwards for hundreds of kilometres. In the northeast, it rises towards mountain peaks and terminates in an immense escarpment. In places this escarpment plunges hundreds of metres down to the low-lying area known as the Lowveld. In the eastern region lies the southern half of the magnificent Kruger National Park, a nature reserve teeming with African wildlife in a total area roughly the size of Israel. Mpumalanga is highly accessible, with a network of excellent roads and railway connections, as well as a number of small airports. The Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport became operational in 2002 (with airport car rental branches).
Nelspruit is the capital, and the administrative and business hub of the Lowveld. Witbank is the centre of the local coal-mining industry; Standerton, in the south, is known for its large dairy industry; and Piet Retief in the southeast is a production area for tropical fruit and sugar. A large sugar industry is also found at Malelane in the east; Ermelo is the district in South Africa that produces the most wool; Barberton is one of the oldest gold-mining towns in South Africa; and Sabie is situated in the forestry heartland of the country.
The Maputo Development Corridor, which links the province with Gauteng and the Port of Maputo in Mozambique, heralds a new era of economic development and growth for the region. As the first international toll road in Africa, the corridor is set to attract investment and release the local economic potential of the landlocked parts of the country.
The land and its people
With a total area of 76 495 square kilometres, Mpumalanga is slightly larger than the Czech Republic. It's second-smallest province after Gauteng, taking up 6.3% of South Africa's land area and with a mid-2006 population of 3.5-million people. Some 30% of the people speak siSwati, the language of neighbouring Swaziland, with 26% speaking isiZulu and 12% isiNdebele. Mpumalanga falls mainly within the grassland biome. The escarpment and the Lowveld form a transitional zone between this grassland area and the savanna biome. Long sweeps of undulating grasslands change abruptly into thickly forested ravines and thundering waterfalls of the escarpment, only to change again into the subtropical wildlife splendour of the Lowveld. The province is a summer-rainfall area, with occasional winter snow on high ground in the escarpment. The escarpment area sometimes experiences snow on high ground. Thick mist is common during the hot and humid summers. Sabie and Graskop provide a large part of the country's total requirement for forestry products. These forestry plantations are an ideal backdrop for ecotourism opportunities, with a variety of popular hiking trails, a myriad waterfalls, patches of indigenous forest and many nature reserves. Lake Chrissie is the largest natural freshwater lake in South Africa and is famous for its variety of aquatic birds, particularly flamingos.
Nelspruit
Nelspruit has been called the gateway to Mpumalanga. And is the trading centre for the surrounding fruit growing area of Mpumalanga. The Lowveld botanical gardens just outside of the town boasts a rare collection of plant species and the first man-made rain forests. Many beautiful nature and hiking trails are in the vicinity of Nelspruit and a 1-hour historical trail acquaints you with the architectural and cultural history of the town. Nelspruit was previously part of Transvaal province and consequently also part of the Boer Republic before the Anglo-Boer war of 1899. The area also used to be known as the Eastern Transvaal. The history of this beautiful, fast growing metropolitan area dates back to 1892. It all started off with the construction of a station up the Crocodile river valley, built on a farm owned by the Nel family. The place Nelspruit (Nels stream) attracted traders and farmers in high profile because of the natural richness of the soil, adequate water for irrigation and a level valley floor. This town has a very important place in the tourist map as it is a stop over to the route to Kruger National Park. Nelspruit is the stop-over to most of the surrounding tourist attractions. Hazyview, Pelgrims Rest, Sabie, Kruger National Park, Mosambique, White River and Graskop. Nelspruit boasts a large regional shopping centre on the White River Road. It has eight film theatres, restaurants and a games arcade. National tenants such as Woolworths, Pick-'n-Pay, Boardmans and Queenspark are also housed in the centre. For enquiries phone 013 757-0080. This world famous game park and home of the Big Five is just around the corner. From Nelspruit you can enter the Park through Malelane gate (60km) or Numbi Gate (50km) while Hazyview and Malelane is situated next to the Kruger and Malelane gates respectively. Komatipoort is next the Crocodile Bridge Gate of the Park. Open Vehicle safaris are undertaken to and from the Park from Nelspruit, Hazyview and Malelane. Car Hire in Nelspruit, car rental in the K ruger Park.
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Blyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
Photo by Walter Knirr. Copyright South African Tourism
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