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Gordons Bay to Rooi Els
I can remember, years ago, when friends and I would take a Sunday drive out to Gordon’s Bay and drive the 20km stretch of road to Rooi Els and then along past Pringle Bay and Betty’s Bay and have a...
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Pringle Bay.
The first village from Rooi Els on the R44, in the Cape Hangklip area, is Pringle Bay. ( From what I was told Hangklip is not a place but an area and there is Groot Hangklip and Klein Hangklip.) The...
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Betty’s Bay.
Just a few km’s down the R44 from Pringle Bay is the village of Betty’s Bay which also lies in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve. Only an hour’s drive from Cape Town, Betty’s Bay is a picturesque seaside...
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Kleinmond.
The last of the 4 sea-side villages along the R44 , after Betty’s Bay, is Kleinmod which lies on a lagoon at the small mouth – hence the name – of the Botriver on a narrow strip of land hugged on the...
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Vermont, Onrus & Sandbaai.
As one gets to the end of the R44 you get to a T-junction with the Bot River to Hermanus road the R43. You pass the fishing villages of Church Haven and Hawston , which has long been the home of...
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Paradise & Onrus Caravan Parks.
In the Hermanus area there are 2 caravan parks, the one at Onrus and the one I stayed at Paradise Park in Vermont. There was a great camping and caravan park in Hermanus, I camped there many years...
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Hermanus 1
Hermanus was originally named Hermanuspieterfontein after an itinerant teacher from the 1830′s who grazed sheep near a fresh water spring in what is now Westcliff. Fishermen from Hawston started to...
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Hermanus 2
If you have just come across this post then I would suggest that you first have a look at the post called Hermanus 1 as it gives a bit of background to the town and covers most of the touristy places...
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Gansbaai & Caravan Park
To get to Gansbaai from Hermanus one travels along the R43 which runs between the mountain and the Klein River Vlei via Stanford, which has a well preserved core of historical buildings, antique shops...
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Kleinbaai & Danger Point Lighthouse.
Kleinbaai is a picturesque little village situated on the Eastern side of Gansbaai and is the ideal launching site for the local fishermen to fish in the Dyer Island area. Stories about the Big White...
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