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Venture into the Cederberg for a magical experience

Venture into the Cederberg for a magical experience
The Cederberg around Eselbank is probably our favourite part.
The Cederberg around Eselbank is probably our favourite part.

Located about 250 km north of Cape Town, the Cederberg nestles between Citrusdal and Clanwilliam. To the west, you’ll find the Sandveld, famous for its potato spud farms; Pakhuisberg lies to the north with its haunting allure of ghost stories; and eastwards stretch the Springbok Flats and the tranquil Tankwa Karoo.

“Inlanders dream of the Bushveld. We Capetonians from the green south, we dream of the mountains. And among mountains chiefly, the Cederberg,” muses Jan Rabie in his Afrikaans language book Droomberge – Sederberge.

This is a place where you’ll encounter a Nieuwoudt around every bend, where poets Boerneef and C Louis Leipoldt penned their most beautiful prose, and where Jan Rabie wore holes in his boots.

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