The canyon has power and attraction compelling the visitor to gaze into its depth. These few points to a time when rainfall here would be significantly greater and the river evermore able to cover its channel through the granite landscape. This volca...
Long before this was a national park, it held the fascination of a man who wrote this lovely old book, Mr. GA Farini and he fell in love with this place when it was undiscovered, wild frontier land. The Great Farini, otherwise known as William Hunt,...
But in 1893, it wasn't the river or the geology that was to be protected, rather the local antelope herds. Policing methods proved adequate though, hunting remain widespread and the antelope population remains a fraction of what it once was.Today, th...
there was a big movement from the consumer side from seeded grapes to seedless grapes and which the UK eaters only talks seedless grapes. What are we like as grape eaters, are we fussy grape eaters? Yeah, I think you are a bit too fussy. What do we l...
At last, the Orange River, the famous Orange River! Its nice to see one with water in it. It is looking a bit low though. After the bare rock and sand of my first day, the Green Kalahari finally begins to live up to its name. But the Molopo River mou...
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Well, there it is, Molopo Gorge. And that has got to be Norberts little project tucked away. The hot springs were largely funded by a private benefactor and designed to draw all Green Kalahari visitors to Riemvasmaak. Ironically, the town with incons...
Norber witnessed all.--How many people? --It was two hundred all village. --And you, your family were one of those... --Yes, I was grown up with my grandmother. You see, at that time, my mother was in Cape Town, and I stayed with my grandmother. And...
This is very peculiar. The Tourist Office is locked tight and it doesnt look as if its been open for business, well, I dont know, for a very, very long time, if ever. Theres a feeling that Riemvasmaak doesnt quite fire on *. They advertise walking tr...
But today Riemvasmaak is fully restored -- an unlikely settlement with a famous past, and quite possibly, a future full of visitors like me. But before I head out into the green Kalahari, lets take an aerial look at the route Ive prepared. From the c...