From your base at Greenbanks Country Hotel you can gaze out over the gentle landscape, rolling out as far as the eye can see.

Norfolk is a place of ancient heathlands, mysterious marshlands and haunting forests. Silhouetted against The Brecks skies are unique belts of twisted Scots pine.

In Thetford Forest - the largest lowland pine forest in Britain, you can follow waymarked trails, cycle the nework of cycle routes or picnic at designated spots of natural beauty. Walk for miles through the trees and bracken spotting a grazing Muntjac or a hiding Pheasant.

The area has a semi-continental climate, which supports animals, rare bird and plant life, including stone curlews, nightjars, wood larks and long eared owls. Birdwatching, photography and painting, are all very popular past times, as is horseriding with miles of bridleways and undulating landscape. With quiet country roads, unspoilt countryside and public footpaths you will find yourselves walking alongside colourful patchwork fields of poppies and rape, wild flowers, and hedgerows.

The best thing you’ll discover is the feeling of space. Far enough away from the pace of urban life to relax, but never too far from a welcoming village pub!

The Norfolk Broads offer 50 vast waterways with reedbeds, grazing marshes and wet woodland and 7 meandering rivers with an abundance of waterfowl, animal and plant life.

The National Trust has many Estates and Houses to be visited including Blickling Hall Gardens and Park and Felbrigg Hall, one of the most elegant houses in East Anglia.

Visit the local Rural Life Museum with animal farm and an amazingly restored workhouse.

Visit Norfolk Falconry in Beeston, just a 5 minute drive away where you will get a personal experienceof birds of prey.

Norfolk is simply a great place to get out and explore and Greenbanks Hotel is positioned ideally in the ‘Heart of the County’ for touring, wherever you wish to go!