Aloe Manor Oudtshoorn
54 Jan Van Riebeeck Road Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, South Africa
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Backtracking
Backtracked along the coast to George and then headed inland to Oudtshoorn via the Montagu Pass. Nice vistas from the top of the pass looking back to the coast. And once over the pass some picturesque valleys before Oudstoorn. Dairy and hop growing.
Went to the Cango Caves which are a bit ...
Red Flags...
... me to stay and he would go check with the office to see what was going on. At this point I was ready to leave but we both just wanted to know for sure. We thought maybe the owner would be around and at least give us some information as to what the dive day would be, etc... Hmmmm Red-Flag #6???? - He came running back to the car, jumped in and said "this is crazy! when I walked up to the office a young African guy was breaking into the ...
Cango caves
... 1700 and was indeed worth the detour.
At one point, all we saw were Fab’s shoes disappearing up in an empty column of slippery limestone, in what is called the Chimney...
“Do you feel like Santa yet??
Since there is internet reception at their restaurant, we took this opportunity to catch up on emails and update the blog... We are still looking for two buyers for our ...
Road trip, Karoo and ostriches
... to the day. Off to the hotel to check out once they passed us and then time to hit the road. Next stop was oudsthorn or ostrich town. We were going to take the n2 most of the way but then decided the change up the route half way through and hit up the little Karoo (route62) which took us through some dry country. It was a nice mix of drives and we saw tons of cows, sheep, baboons, horses, ostrich and goats. Two incidents worth mentioning on the trip: On one of the pit stops, ...
Craziness continues...
... icing on the cake was that we hadn’t booked any accommodation as had had no signal so with a few names and addresses we couldn’t find one and the other when we rang the bell, yep reception had closed as it was so late we got them up and they were full for dorms, only private rooms which were twice as much. I think the guy could see that I was about to burst into tears and was clearly traumatised as we ended up with the private room for the dorm ...


