The Khuwana Tavern in Nelson Mandela Village near Rust de Winter, with its erotic murals, ice-cold quarts of beer, spicy Mozambique-inspired cuisine and pumping kwaito music is a local party venue as hot any big city club. Dinokeng offers adventure sports, local arts and crafts, welcoming hospitality and safari and game viewing of the Big 5 (elephant, lion, rhino, buffalo and leopard) in its 3 nature reserves. There´s Ndebele, Tsonga, BaPedi and Tswana culture; Anglo-Boer war sites, bird watching and water sports at Roodeplaat and Rust de Winter Dam. South Africa´s largest diamond was discovered at Cullinan, and its revamped mining village is a gem, with absorbing diamond mine tours and a factory-direct shop where you can purchase a sparkler and have it set while you wait. Quaint Victorian shop fronts on Cullinan´s high street house bustling restaurants, old fashioned tea gardens, galleries, guesthouses, a whimsical theatre-cum-antique shop hand-decorated with ´junk´; and, there are top-class wellness centres, like Zau Spa and Kievitskroon nearby. The best of South Africa all in a day? It´s possible in Dinokeng.