The private VW collection called the “Volksie Museum”, is focuses on air-cooled VW’s such as original Beetles, Karmann Ghias and Kombi’s. The vehicles on display were fantastic, from fully restored Kombi’s to amazing Beetles in many colours. There were also some special treasures to be found such as an old-school ambulance with just 40,000kms on …
We came to Bloemfontein to visit Bernie (ZS4TX), a HAM radio enthusiast, but did also a tour through the city. Bloemfontein is a lovely town, which made a very clean and organised impression, but we managed to find also the city centre, which was, as usually in South African Towns, not so nice anymore. We …
When we went to Sandstone Estate to camp on the farm’s campground, we imagined some old rusty machines laying around from the description on IOverlander. What we got was better than every museum we had visited so far. Sandstone Estate has the most excellent collection of steam trains, 90 in total, 32 of them ready …
From the Royal Natal NP with its impressive Amphitheatre, we drove past a big dam to a very black town called Phuthaditjhaba for some shopping before we crossed the Golden Gate Highlands NP. Our first intention was to camp at the Golden Gate Highlands NP for a night and go for another hike. But the …
After our last hike at Monks Cowl, the weather had changed dramatically, the temperature had dropped by 20 degrees and fog, clouds and a constant drizzle made us spend a day in our car. When we left the next morning, we visited some food stalls were we bought cheese, bread and many other treats, before …
Our first hike at the Drakensberg was at Monks Cowl, where a camping site lies just at the start of the hikes. We left for our hike after noon, even it had at least 35 degrees. Our chosen route was leading us into a gorge and to Nandi waterfall. In the end, we didn’t reach …
We are not really into battlefields, but as the Battle of Blood River in 1838 is an important part of South African history, we decided to have a look. Especially as there are 2 museums, each for one side of the conflict, on their respective sides of the river where the battle was fought. At …
Not far from Graskop lies Pilgrim’s Rest, a living museum of a gold digger’s village, which was founded in 1873, when gold was discovered in the Pilgrim’s Creek. News of the discovery of gold led to the first major gold rush in South Africa, and by the end of the same year there were some …
We stayed at the Panorama Camp in Graskop after exploring the Blyde River Canyon. Next to the campsite we went to explore a quite new attraction: a lift takes you down into the gorge and you can explore the indigenious forest on a board walk through the jungle, very different from the grassy cliff tops. …
We started exploring the Blyde River Canyon from the North, driving up the Abel Erasmus Pass and staying at the Blyde Canyon Resort to explore the surroundings. From there, many hikes lead around the mountains and to the dam below. We had decided on the Guinea Fowl Hike, leading us down in direction of the …
