There is an easy walk along to the open air Bushman Museum with a tableau of San family life.
Military types will be interested in a short run to Colenso, Spioenkop, Ladysmith and back past many sites of importance to the Voortrekkers and the second Anglo-Boer War.
A somewhat longer drive through Ladysmith to Dundee passes the battlefields of Elandslaagte and Talana.
The Talana Museum on that battlefield is well worth a visit.
A very pretty run through rural Zulu country can be taken on the return, through Greytown (excellent museum too) and back via Mooi River.
Hotel Blue Haze Country Lodge & Conference Centre is a top-class hotel in Estcourt, Kwazulu-natal .
