Paintball Action Hot-spots in South Africa

So challenging; real like. Combat games involving strategy, stealth, and various terrains. However, while the game of paintball is cool for sure, only some paintball venues make you want to go back time and again.

Using high-tech semi-automatic paintball ‘guns’ and shooting with bio-degradable paintball ‘bullets’, the games can be played by men, women and teenagers – such a cool day out for a few dudes or a large group, for team buildingor a company event. But critical to the success of the experience is a location that provides a good ‘battlefield’.

With five playing fields, Blades & Triggers in Boksburg is one of the Gauteng venues where you can be sure of a really fun time. The Woods Paintball Range in Fourways also features five fields suited to various levels of play, including heavily bunkered ‘close quarter’ terrain for fast-paced action and genuine ‘bushball’ fields that put your stalking and bushcraft skills to the test.

On the five paintball fields at the Gotcha Paintball Range, one of the most established facilities in Pretoria, you have the choice of a bush-type feel, an urban/village warfare simulation, a fort, a battlefield with trenches as well as land with a river running through it – perfect for flag games.

In the Limpopo province, Magoebaskloof Adventures’ paintball course is located in a beautiful forest.

In the Western Cape the Nature Discovery outfit in Elgin presents an unusual ‘Slingshot 3 Dimensional Paintball’ course set in indigenous forest and brush.

And in KwaZulu-Natal, the Zingela Safari & River Company’s dry river beds south-east of Ladysmith make for another cool paintball venue.

Whether you’re up for a game of capture the flag, elimination or scenario paintball, these are some of the country’s best places to do it at. Seriously!