


Pretoria has no shortage of accommodation including Guest
houses, Bed & Breakfasts, Cottages, Lodges and Self Catering options. Countrywide Ads offer
a selection of accommodation to suit your needs. Accommodation
can also be accessed by means of points of interest such as:
- Closest hospital
- Easy access to
the N1,N4 or R21 highways
- Easy access to
business meetings
- Close to The
University of Pretoria
- Close to Pretoria City Centre
- Ease of access
to Embassies
- Ease of access
to shopping malls.
- Tourist
attractions, etc.
Please browse through the selection on your left.
Pretoria is known as the Jacaranda City, each
spring the flowers of the jacaranda trees add splashes of deep lilac to the
streets. Some 70,000 jacaranda trees were imported from Rio de Janeiro in the
1888. The nearest airport will be OR Tambo Airport (international and
domestic flights) which is some 50km away from Pretoria. Lanseria Airport
(Domestic flights) is some 60km away from Pretoria.
Pretoria is 1370 m above sea level and has a
warmer and more humid climate than Johannesburg. Pretoria’s climate
temperatures from October to May is an average of 16*C to 29*C
(extremes 35*C)and June to September average temperatures of 3*C to 20*C.Pretoria has summer rain falls from November into March with thunder storms
accompanied by a great deal of noise and fierce flashes of lighting.

Gauteng hosts nine million people and is divided
into six regions Tshwane (Pretoria), Ekurhuleni (Johannesburg), Metsweding
(Cullinan) and Sedibeng (Vaal). The name Gauteng is derived from the
Sotho word meaning “Place of Gold. “Pretoria is the administrative capital of
South Africa and hosts the national government, trade offices, innovation
and research institutes and more than a hundred embassies.
Pretoria city name honours the Voortrekker leader
Andries Pretorius. The monuments and grandiose official buildings, some dating
back to the 19th century, are softened by Pretoria’s many parks and
gardens. In the heart of Pretoria city is Church Square with the statue of Paul
Kruger, Church Square was the hub of the early Pretoria. Here ox-wagons
from the country were out spanned (unyoked), and here the city’s first shops
opened, clustered around the square are several historic buildings built
in the late 1880s and 1890s.
Union Buildings designed by the celebrated
architect Herbert Baker and completed in 1913, they become an iconic
landmark of Pretoria and South Africa in general, and is one of the most
popular tourist magnificent crescent shaped red sandstone edifice looks
over Pretoria city. The Union Buildings has attractions in the city and an
emblem of democracy.





