Facilities
Onsite
facilities:
Additional
facilities: Bed & Breakfast accommodation
Offsite
facilities:
Places
of interest:
A
30 km drive takes the visitor on a guided
tour to the Florisbad Research Station,
where the 259,000 year old human skull fragment
was found in 1932. The discovery of the
Florisbad human skull supports the hypothesis
that the well-known Neanderthal people of
Europe and Asia were the descendants of
a first fully modern people on earth who
first appeared in sub-Saharan Africa.
Also
on the Florisbad route lies a lion predator
park and the Soetdoring Nature Reserve,
a haven for many game species associated
with grassland plains.
Also
visit the salt pan where raw salt is extracted
with the help of traditional windmills.
Some
13 km east of the River of Joy Country Guest
house is the Boyden Observatory which originally
was located in Arequipa, Peru. In 1927 the
entire observatory was moved to its current
location outside of Bloemfontein, known
for its excellent weather and atmospheric
stability.
A
number of Anglo-Boer battlefields are within
easy reach of the River of Joy Country Guest
House.
The
Glen Agricultural College (a 3km drive)
has been a model farm for agricultural education
in the Free State since 1913. It hosts a
living farm museum which has regular demonstrations
of traditional farming methods.
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