Monday, September 16, 2013

Day 4 - Namaqualand Flower tour

0700 breakfast and off on a chilly, windy morning.
Rooibos Factory

We travel east to Clanwilliam past acres of Rooibos. The vegetation is full and lush all the way.
Strassberger Leather Factory

The Rooibos factory in Clanwilliam produces products made from the Rooibos Products range from tea to beauty creams and soaps and loads more. This area  is the only place in the world where this Rooibos grows. It's end product is exported world wide.
Bushman Painting

The next stop in Clanwilliam was the famous Strassberger Leather Factory where hand made
shoes, belts and hats are made. These products are also distributed country  wide.

Clanwilliam Main Road






We strolled through the Ramskop Nature Reserve which had an abundance of flowers and were even lucky enough to find some bushman paintings hidden in a corner of the reserve. It was really chilly and damp so a whole lot of the flowers were not open.
At Ramskop Nature Reserve

We overnight at in Vredendal at Tharrakamma B & B where our hostess Magda looked after us and spoilt us with a seafood buffet of note. We started with fresh mussel soup and then an array of snoek,  prawns, calamari and pasta. Beautiful salad and then we ended off with "Melktert in a Glass"



Looking forward to a sunny tomorrow - don't want the overcast any more

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