A drive through the Karoo and other Oudtshoorn, South Africa Things to Do Tips

After the wine route, we decided to drive across the Karoo. All the way, all those very small bushes and sand. Nothing else to see. The landscape is wide and in the far distance you see some mountains, nothing to see? You would be surprised when you drive there.

Traveling like that is like driving through a moon landscape, nothing to focus on, just drive. And then you try to follow a car that drives in front of you.

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This pass is the link between the little and the big Karoo and the drive up there is breath taking.

There are lot of sharp turns, but the views are worth it.

We drove through the Meiringspoort and on to the Swartberg Pass. This pass surprised us. We thought about a normal road, but it was a sand road, and mostly so small that only one car can travel on it. Here and there, we saw an opportunity to let other cars pass. But this was not necessary because going up, we didn’t see one car. You can imagine that this took a long time to drive up. But the view on the top was great. That winding sand-road going up. We were glad we did this. But after the top, the road didn’t ended as we thought. It was downhill and then ups again. We saw the first car just behind the first top, one car in more than one hour; it sounds like a very busy road. But a the second top, we saw 2 cars standing with tourists, also taking pictures. And on the way down, we passed more cars. But we still are on a sand road.

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The Cango Caves are worth exploring, you can do there several guided tours and you see lot's of wonderful things underground. For more information you can read my travelogue: The Cango Caves.

It's open 364 days in a year and only on Christmas day it's closed.

For more information and photos see my travelogue: The Cango Caves

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Phone: 044 272 7410
Website: http://www.cangocaves.co.za/
Other Contact: reservations@cangocaves.co.za

There are several ostrich farms that you can visit in Oudsthoorn and we went to Highgate. You get a tour in the farm with a very good explanation and you have the possibility to taste Ostrich meat. For more information see my travelogue Our experience in an Ostrich farm.

Well go and see those "Volstruis"

For more information and photos see my travelogue: Our experience in an Ostrich farm

Like did you know that: Males have black and females grey feathers more on my travelogue.

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Phone: +27(0)44 272 7115
Directions: You can find a detailed map on their website.
Website: http://www.highgate.co.za/
Other Contact: hosf@mweb.co.za