The Cango Caves Oudtshoorn

Pretty overcast today and lots of rain last night (it nearly drowned out the roar of the Indian Ocean).

We had breakfast overlooking the stunning views and, on the recommendation of our host, scrapped our canoeing plans for a trip to the Cango Caves.

It was a longer drive than we expected (1 1/2 hours) but it took in some …

Further west from Knysna is a sleepy village called Buffalo Bay. It's just a collection of holiday houses along a beautiful stretch of beach, 10 km long or so. A handful of surfers are challenging the waves. There's a closed down backpacker's shack right on the beach, maybe they will open up for summer again. Many hostels and B&Bs have had …

... weather is extremely hot, there's a slight danger I might get a tan. On the second day we took a tour to the Cango Caves and the Ostrich Farm. The caves are incredibly beautiful and vast. One large chamber actually hosted rock concerts throughout the ...

The Cango Caves are located in the foothills of the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn. The principal cave is one of the country's finest, best known and most popular tourist caves and attracts many visitors from overseas. Although the ...

... in New Zealand. Why not hey, we were along the garden route. Hiking in Tsitsitkamma, beer tasting in Knysna and exploring the Cango Caves, were all in a days job for a traveller along the garden route. But ostrich riding, who would of thought. Well, ...

... the lovely Cape Town and headed to Cape Agulhas where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. Then we headed inland to Oudtshoorn where we visited the Cango Caves (very impressive) and and Ostrich farm where I got to ride an ostrich. We also went to a fair ...

... spend an hour at the ostrich farm, which is very informative and great fun, and then it’s off to the Cango Caves.  The caves were discovered in 1780 and contain the largest chambers and passageways that we have ever seen.  Incredibly old ...

... my opinion not as tasty. Before arriving at our B&B called Aan De Brug we drove north of the town to the Cango caves, an impressive and very old set of caves containing stallegtites up to 500million years old. In past ...

... . We did try and go to the springs but again just a mass of body's, so we didn't bother. We arrived at a place called Oudtshoorn yesterday famous for it's ostrich farms and the Cango caves. Lets see what happens her. We'll try and up load some pics ...

... young but could still do damage so it had to be pretty closely monitored. But was really special. After that we went to the Cango Caves, one of the largest cave systems in the world with some amazing stalagmite and stalactite thingys. We did ...

... After our tour of the ostrich farm concluded, we hopped back into the car, went through the town of Oudtshoorn and continued north to the Cango Caves. The Cango Caves are huge caverns within the mountainside and contain huge stalagmites and ...

... a very nice chalet at Kleinplaas Holliday Resort, which means Little Farm.   In the morning we visited the Cango Caves. Taking the standard tour allowed us to see several large chambers of beautiful limestone formations. There are two types: flow ...