Northern Cape Province, South Africa. - Legendary Places
Travel along the ghost trail and make acquaintance with some of Kimberly's most unusual residents and tap into the psychic world of the mystical, magical masters of the universe, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari.
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Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa - A real-time tour
The Small Karoo town of Sutherland is well known as the coldest town in South Africa. It is also famed for its hosting of some of the worlds largest celestial telecopes.
The video takes you on a simulated and real-time tour through the streests of the town and investigates the fascinating history
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Kleinzee - An Awesome Holiday Destination!
Kleinzee or Kleinsee is a beautiful holiday destination.
This beautiful Diamond Coast town is on the west coast of the Northern Cape. It is 72km from Port Nolloth and 105km from Springbok.
Founded in 1927 and known for its diamond-mining operations, owned by De Beers. The name is Afrikaans for small sea.
It lies at the mouth of the Buffels River. This river runs through the town but only has water approximately every ten years. The rest of the time it is a dry river bed. The town can only be reached by dirt road.
Kleinzee has numerous tourist attractions like fishing. The Black Bream is a medium sized fish of the Sparidae family. There are also abundant kelp beds along the shores.
There are several shops to buy the necessities. The weather is normally warm and sunny, unless the Atlantic Ocean mist creates a drop in temperature.
The Kleinzee Nature Reserve has over 100 indigenous plant species. For more information about this mysterious small town visitors can visit the Kleinzee Museum to find out about diamond mining and the natural environment. Kleinzee is also home to a huge seal colony of about 450 000. Also don't miss the nearby shipwreck.
A Small Town in South Africa: Vanrhynsdorp, Western Cape Province
The small town of Van Rhynsdorp lies about 300 km of Cape Town in South Africa's Western Cape Province. It is on the southern fringe of the arid area that stretches north to Namibia. I visited the town on a quiet weekday morning in June 2016.
I filmed this video with a Sony camera and a DJI Phantom 4 drone.
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Slow Heat Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Kenhardt, Northern Cape, South Africa
Kenhardt (founded 1868) is a small town in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. This little town is about 120 km fromUpington, the largest town in the area.
History
On December 27, 1868, special magistrate Maximillian Jackson with a police contingent was sent to act against the Griquas in the area. The Griqua's anti-colonial resistance had erupted into an open conflict. Jackson arrived in Kenhardt and set up camp under a giant camelthorn tree.
Kenhardt has been, for a long time the most remote settlement in the North-Western Cape. With time the town developed from under this tree, becoming a municipality in 1909. The Hartbees River, with its many sweet thorn trees, provides a green belt irrigated by the Rooiberg Dam. Kenhardt is famous for being at the heart of the Dorper sheep-farming area.
Geography
This region contains little vegetation, primarily low shrubs and yellow grass among a rocky, desert kind of landscape. If you travel south from Kenhardt towards Brandvlei, you will pass through a vast landscape of nothingness for the next 200 km and more. During the seasons, many birds flock to the pans, when they contain water, after some rainfall. Temperature above 40°C is not uncommon.
Activities
Visit the Quiver Tree Forest, Kokerboom Woud in Afrikaans, about 8 km south of Kenhardt on the main route to Cape Town. Some of these trees have specially formed weaver birds nests. The forest comprises approximately 4,000 to 5,000 Kokerbome.
Walk the legendary geological granite metamorphic outcrops of the area. Along the trail, all kind of quartz lies scattered.
Tours to the pans on the outlying farms where you can view San artwork– also known as Bushman– and enjoy the farm hospitality as well as a hiking trail where Anglo-Boer War remains, and the beautiful landscape can be experienced.
Make your discoveries on fossilized foot impressions and engravings.
Places of interest[edit]
Giant Camelthorn Tree
This tree is about 500–600 years old. It is under this tree that Magistrate Jackson set up his camp in 1868.
Old Library Building
The old library was built in 1897, and it was used until 1977. In 1978, it was declared a national monument. Currently, it is used by Sanlam as their office.
Verneukpan
A vast dry pan on which Sir Malcolm Campbell tried, in Bluebird 1, to set a new world land-speed record in 1929.
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South Africa's Quiver Tree
Leon Kluge and The Cape Town Flower Show introduces you to one of Leon's favourite architectural plants of Southern Africa - The Aloe Dichotoma, otherwise known as the Quiver Tree.
False Bay Kelp Forest
. Tony Isaacson of DiveCareDare swims through False Bay kep forest in Cape Town South Africa.
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Tankwa Karoo Old Postal Route
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Wolwedans Dam Road (OP6834) - Mountain Passes of South Africa
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