The whale Criers call will herald the sighting of the Southern Right Whales off the Hermanus Coast, which occurs between the months, July to November each year.
The Crest of Naude's Nek at 2587m[/caption]
A road trip from KZN kicking off in Matatiels to Barkley East/Elliot takes you through some bucket list places.
Tarkastad is situated on the banks Tarka River and lying north of the Winterberg Mountains, between Cradock and Queenstown. The town is overlooked by Martha and Mary; two peaks which look like two women resting. After the SAN, the first european farmers settled in Tarkastad in...
Dordrecht was founded in 1856 by Baron Smiddolff , a minister of the NGK with a substantial Church in the town. The town was named after a city in the the Netherlands.
In 1487 Bartolomew Diaz landed in Luderitz Bay and erected a Padrao near the harbour , one of many that he erected to mark his journey around the coast of Africa. The Germans had colonized what was to become German South West Africa and the town of Luderitz was formed in 1883.
The Groot Kerk or Fourth Kerk was designed along the lines of Salisbury Cathedral in UK and designed by Charles Freeman along Victorian-Gothic lines, and built by Grant and Downie at a cost of 18000 pounds.
The building can seat 1500 people and the spire is 45.72m high.
A typical scene in most small towns in the old Transvaal is the dominating Kerk.
Gariep Dam (formerly Hendrik Vervoed Dam) is on the Orange River between the Eastern Cape and Freestate Province.
The Dordecht NGK Foundation Stone was laid in 1882 and the Church inaugurated in 1883.