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Contents Contents Contents Conten

Western Cape

INTRODUCTION 4 General 4 Historical 8 Activities 10

CAPE TOWN & THE WINELANDS 12 Cape Town 14 Robben Island 21 Milnerton & Ratanga Junction 22 Camps Bay & Hout Bay 23 Muizenberg 24 Simon’s Town & Boulders Beach 25 THE WINELANDS 26 Durbanville & Constantia 27 Stellenbosch 28 Franschhoek 29 Paarl 30 Wellington 31 Classic Estate layouts 32 Somerset West 33 Strand 34 Gordon’s Bay 35

OUT OF TOWN 36 THE WEST COAST REGION 38 Malmesbury 38 Langebaan 39 Vredenburg 40 Velddrif & Dwarskersbos 41 Clanwilliam & the Cederberg 42 Lambert’s Bay 44 Vanrhynsdorp & Vredendal 45

THE BREEDE RIVER VALLEY & OVERBERG 46 Worcester 46 Robertson & Kleinplasie 47 Tulbagh & Ceres 48 Montagu & Swellendam 49 Greyton & McGregor 50 Caledon & Bredasdorp 51 Hermanus 52 De Hoop Nature Reserve & Breede River 53 THE GARDEN ROUTE & ROUTE 62 54 George 54 Mossel Bay 55 Knysna 56 Plettenberg Bay 57 THE KLEIN KAROO 58 Beaufort West & Karoo National Park 58 Laingsburg & Matjiesfontein 60 Oudtshoorn 61

DRIVING MAPS 62

INDEX 108

RESOURCES 112

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It’s perhaps a combination of the coldupwelling of the Benguela Current (nourishingthe dark kelp forests that sway lazily in thewind-blown, big-waved seas) and the starkand rocky coastal landscapes that give theWest Coast its wild air. This, coupled withthe barren, almost desert-like conditionsinland where rain is scarce and summersare ferocious, creates a sometimes-forbiddingpicture. But that’s not taking into accounttwo major rivers: the Orange in the far north(on Namibia’s border) and the Olifants,snaking from its mouth to the north ofLambert’s Bay into Clanwilliam Dam andthrough Citrusdal. Both rivers have beenharnessed extensively to irrigate citrusorchards, wheatfields and vineyards. As abonus, at Clanwilliam the Olifants is backedby the craggy, contorted Cederbergmountains. The N7 highway forges a routestraight up the West Coast, from Milnertonright up to the Namibian border: crossingthe Swartland, it connects Malmesbury (centrefor this region’s wheat industry and proudhome of the country’s largest flour mills)with Citrusdal, Clanwilliam and Vanrhynsdorp’sspectacular spring-flower displays.

MALMESBURY HISTORIC WALKThe local tourist bureau’s ‘historic route’brochure will guide you through the widerange of architectural styles gracing the towncenter. There’s Gothic Revival style, Georgian,Edwardian, Victorian and even the eclectictwin shops in Piet Retief Street (1880).

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The Dutch settlers coined the name Swartland (‘black land’), most likelybecause renosterbush, a local shrub, turns the veld dark in winter.

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THE FLOWER ROUTEEvery year between August and October,Spring puts on her prettiest bloom-bedeckedfrock. The official flower route covers vastdistances, from the Tienie Versveld Reservein Darling to the Orange River in the north,and can take up to three days to cover fully.The arid, stony, scrubby Namaqualand regionhas different climatic zones, with flowerspecies (4000 at the last count) rangingfrom neon daisies, gazanias andmesembryanthemums, to hardy fleshysucculents to geophytes (bulbs, corms andtubers) like irises and bulbinellas. Visitorsoften need travel no further than the PostbergNature Reserve on Langebaan Lagoon – anhour’s drive – to enjoy a mesmerising magic-carpet ride.

LANGEBAANThe lagoon is what makes people comeback for more to the sleepy town of Lange-baan. Part of the West Coast National Parkand an important wetland for birdlife, thelagoon’s 16km (10-mile) expanse turns adelicate shade of pink at certain times ofthe year as masses of crimson-wingedflamingos descend on its waters. Hartlaub’sGulls, ibis, herons, and curlews also get alook-in, while Cape Cormorants hang outtheir wings to dry and White Pelicans tryhard not to look like clowns. Human actioncomes in Smartie-packhues – Hobie cats, wind-surfers and para-sailers:name them, they’re here.

Flowers in full bloom down the West Coast.

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Flowers open with the sun, so cloudydays are no good for viewing. Bloomsare best between 11:00 and 16:00;ensure that you drive facing the openedpetals, and with the sun behind you.

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Die Strandloper serves delicious fresh-baked potbrood and seafood in anunpretentious setting: beach sand and reed shelters in a protected cove.

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VREDENBURG & JACOBSBAAIAll roads lead to Vredenburg … well, alongthe coast north of Saldanha, anyway. Fromhere, the west-coast play-zones are allaccessible: Jacobsbaai (Jacob’s Bay, to thosewho can’t get their tongue around the‘translation’), Paternoster, St Helena andVelddrif. Jacobsbaai is a beautiful, isolatedspot of rocky peninsulas and sandy bays,focusing – naturally – on matters of the sea:scuba diving (in crayfish season), anglingfor linefish, collecting black mussels off therocks, and dolphin and whale watching(between July and December). If this iswaaaay too civilised for you, then rather hitthe 17km (10,5-mile) easy-walking hikingtrail from Swartriet, just north of Jacobsbaai,to Tietiesbaai. It crosses dune veld, fynbosand rocky coastal terrain; there are no trailfacilities and a permit is required from theWest Coast Council.

PATERNOSTER, ST HELENAFor a peek at how the fisherfolk live,Paternoster’s village of traditional low-slung,small windowed, thatched fishermen’scottages will give you an idea. How did thisvillage get its name? The story goes thatwhen 17th-century Portuguese sailors wereshipwrecked here, they recited the Paternoster(Lord’s Prayer) to give thanks for theirsurvival. Around the promontory to the north,St Helena Bay is another fishing villageperched at the edge of a pretty bay. Somesecret recipe of stark rocky coastline andfrigid west-coast temperatures appears tohave concocted a particularly turquoise huein the waters of this coast. The coldnessalso nurtures healthy crayfish (Cape lobster),and scuba divers descend upon both villagesin crayfishing season.

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Trails in the Rocher Pan Nature Reservewill expand your nature-bent horizonsto activities like fabulous birdwatching,spring flower-gazing, and southern rightwhale-spying.

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If you can chip and putt with the best, the Vredenburg golf course is makingwaves in West Coast golfing circles.

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VELDDRIFVelddrif has the advantage of two worlds:cold blue-green seas and the Berg rivermouth.Line-fishing, crayfishing, mussel-catchingand sea-based watersports on the one hand,with birdwatching, canoeing, row-boatingon the Berg on the other. Velddrif’s worldhas also been enlivened by the developmentof an upscale holiday resort along its shores,attracting hordes of holidaymakers, cometo let their hair down and play.

DWARSKERSBOSA popular holiday resort, Dwarskersbos liesa quick drive north of Laaiplek and in themiddle of the St Helena Bay basin. It boastsa brilliant, sandy beach that stretches as faras the eye can see. Back in ’69 the townwas wracked by a tidal wave that torethrough the dune and swamped a numberof houses. Whales can be spotted offshore,and the area has grown in popularity amongstanglers and watersports enthusiasts.

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Enjoy bird-watching at Rocher Pan NatureReserve, water sports at Port OwenMarina, local art at the West Coast ArtGallery, and the taste of the local WestCoast delicacy, ‘bokkom’ (a salt fish).

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Dwarskersbos is named after the humble candle bush (kersbosse), Velddrifafter a ‘drift’ in the ‘veld’, and nearby Laaiplek stands for ‘loading place’.

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CLANWILLIAMAnother spot on the map whose body ofwater is more famous than the town: the18km (11-mile) stretch of lake at the foot ofthe gnarled, weather-eroded Cederberg

mountain range is mini-heaven for boatersand water-skiers. In summer they emergesoon after sunrise from holiday cabins, orthe idyllically placed campsite nudging thewater’s edge, to glide across the dam’smirror-smooth surfaces before the winds stir.The dam, fed by the Olifants River, irrigatesthe surrounding farmlands and water canoften be seen bursting through its sluicegates. The Cederberg mountains andsurrounding area are named after theClanwilliam cedar, which is today a protectedspecies in the Cederberg Wilderness Area.

CEDERBERG HIKINGThe Cederberg range is part of the CapeFolded Mountains, its ingredients beingsandstone, shale and quartzite, each beingopen to erosion to varying degrees. Theresult – powerful biting winds, dissolvingrain and abrasion have nimbly and artfullysculpted a moonscape peopled by rockygargoyles and goblins. No wonder walkersand overnight backpackers can’t keep awayfrom this place of bizarre and otherworldly‘creatures’. The 20m-high (65ft) MalteseCross is a day-hike from Dwarsrivier, theimpressive stone Wolfberg Arch (30m / 98ft)is less than a half-day away, and the WolfbergCracks are closer still, although it takes somesqueezing, slithering and pushing from therear to get there. Not for the half-hearted! Views from all the sites are quite stupendous. The monoliths of Tafelberg and Sneeuberg (2028m / 6654ft) can also be climbed.

The Maltese Cross has been crumbling forcenturies – its upper section is made up ofstronger Table Mountain sandstone.

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Over countless centuries wind and water carved the Cedarberg into a fairytalelandscape: pinnacles, arches and bold fissures now decorate the landscape.

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LAMBERT’S BAYTwo hours north of St Helena, Bird Island iswhat makes Lambert’s Bay somewhatdifferent. Accessed via a breakwater-cum-harbour wall, you’ll smell the guano beforeyou get to see the birds on their islandbreeding ground. Massed in their thousandsare African (Jackass) Penguins, cormorantsand Cape Gannets – fairest of them all withtheir airbrushed faces (could teach us womena thing or too about makeup …). You canwatch the birds’ behaviour incognito froma viewing tower.

ELAND’S BAYThis coastline is an extension of the rocky,turquoise-dyed, crayfish-creviced West Coast.Eland’s Bay, for one, is – you guessed it –mobbed by divers and their extended familiesin crayfish season, when the long arm ofthe law is lifted from December to April.Permits are your ticket to that tender,succulent, sweet-meat (brush with garlic andlemon butter, mmmm …). A permit from anypost office allows daily catches of four perperson. On dry land, the terrain makes greatoffroad territory, and tourist information willsupply you with a map of the best 4x4 trails.

Scenic view of gannets on Bird Island.

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The Sandveld Museum in Lambert’s Bayboasts unusual items, such as an oldhorse mill, a ginger jar (dated 1652, whenVan Riebeeck landed), and a 300-year-old Bible written in High Dutch.

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Spyhopping? Lobtailing? No, it’s not Inspector Cluseau: it’s the SouthernRights! Take the one-hour boat-trip (August to October) to find these whales.

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VANRHYNSDORPThis town lies to the west of the Bokkeveldmountain range and is itself at the foot ofthe Matzikama mountains, settled in thepebble-strewn terrain of the knersvlakte –translating literally as ‘gnashing plains’. Can’timagine it’s too pleasant in baking mid-summer. Part of the Namaqualand flowerroute, Vanrhynsdorp’s flower displays aremainly succulent vygies and Ursinia daisies.In the town itself, at the end of VoortrekkerStreet, visitors will find the country’s biggestsucculent garden and nursery, interestingfor its rather outlandish plant forms, whilefurther out is the Matzikama Eco Park.Southeast of Vanrhynsdorp is the GifbergPass, gif meaning ‘poison’ and referring toa poison-leafed bush that’s scattered overthe slopes. The pass also hides some greatexamples of San rock art. Views from heretake in neatly clipped rows of vines, fieldsof wheat and rooibos tea of the OlifantsRiver valley.

VREDENDALSettled along the Lower Olifants River – andthe centre of the Olifants irrigation scheme– Vredendal is a major agricultural hub. Thetown also links travellers with the beaches

of the West Coast holiday resorts and is thegateway to Namaqualand and its Pandora’sbox of blooms. If you arrive at drinking timeand you’re ready to sup a little wine,Spruitdrift and Vredendal cellars will opentheir wine-tasting doors. Just hold yourbreath … it’s still a fledgling wine industryhere in the hot, dry Olifants River.

Hand prints on cave wall at Gifberg.

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Vanrhynsdorp claims to offer the world’sonly succulent hiking trail, as well assome engrossing waterfalls. Star-gazingat night is also hugely rewarding awayfrom big-city lights!

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Vanrhynsdorp’s attractions include the Latsky Radio Museum, Anglo-Boerwar memorials and an old jail (1895) that now serves up crafts and coffee.

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