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Tuesday, 23 March 2010

An Elands Bay Road trip — stories from the road by Ruan Smit

Elands Bay

Elands Bay

On a misty morn­ing in late March I put myself to the road and hope that what it has to offer is what my soul is in need of. Only the road and the spirit of adven­ture can truly know what I need to exper­i­ence on a day like this and I’ve long since given up on for­cing the out­come of this road

The mist hangs like a cot­ton cloud over the veld of the robust west coast. The shrub­bery only enough to feed the few sheep that have become friends the last few days. A road I can­not the end of stretches under­neath the gray cloud as work the tar, my legs burn­ing in the cold morn­ing air and the feel­ing of being alive pumps through my heart into the rest of my body. A smile appears on my face before I real­ize it and when I do I try and frame it for use at another occa­sion ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Monday, 27 July 2009
Eco-Tourism in August

Elands Bay — a revolution for the soul

Elands Bay

Elands Bay

So, what is there to do in Elands Bay? was the first ques­tion flung my way when I men­tioned to two of my closest friends jet­set­ting in from Johannesburg that we were head­ing out to the small town on the West Coast for our long-planned week­end away.

A little research brought to light an apt descrip­tion that went some­thing like this: there is a very long beach; and you can head down to the local pub and drink coke and klip­pies with the local potato farm­ers! Elands Bay essen­tially gives new mean­ing to the term 'laid­back'. This beau­ti­ful, coastal wil­der­ness, reached after roughly two-and-a-half hours drive from Cape Town along the R27 past through the towns of Langebaan, Veldrift, Laaiplak and Dwarskers, will hope­fully remain the rel­at­ively unnoticed sea­side town that it is for many years to come ... Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues