I ♥ Oudtshoorn Because ...

I ♥ Oudtshoorn

Hi, We are Phil & Linda Putzel from The Gumtree Guest House in Oudtshoorn.

Oudtshoorn IS BEST KNOWN FOR the world fam­ous Cango Caves and being the Ostrich-Capital of the world!

GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN AT an Ostrich Showfarm rid­ing an Ostrich (or feed­ing an Ostrich). The best farms to visit are Highgate, Safari and Cango.

THE BEST scenic PICTURES CAN BE TAKEN from Swartberg Pass which has mag­ni­fi­cent views of the sur­round­ing moun­tains and incred­ible road.

OTHER HAPPY SNAPS AT Cango Wildlife Ranch while strok­ing a baby chee­tah or tiger. Continued

Cango Wildlife Ranch — the real deal for sheer cuteness

Cango Wildlife Ranch

Tired of always being temp­ted to click on emails and Facebook links of cute kit­tens, pos­sums, koalas and other cuddly things, I decided to get the need to look at tiny bundles of fur out of my sys­tem by going straight to the source. Sure, LOLcats and digital pic­tures of hedge­hogs are great, but noth­ing beats the real deal for sheer cute­ness. A visit to the Cango Wildlife Ranch was in order. The ranch offers vis­it­ors an extraordin­ary and rare oppor­tun­ity to inter­act with hand-reared chee­tahs and to play with Bengal tiger cubs. I knew I would be in furry paradise ...

For the super adven­tur­ous and fear­less the ranch also offers cage diving with cro­codiles or the chance to wrap your­self in a python, great mucho excuses for going to look at the kit­ties. 3km from the charm­ing Karoo town of Oudtshoorn makes for a long-ish jour­ney from Cape Town, but it’s well worth the trip. Just make sure you take lots of pho­to­graphs ... Continued

Kuier a while at the Klein Karoo Klassique

Klein Karoo Klassique

This year the Klein Karoo Klassique Festival will be held in Oudtshoorn from 14 to 16 August and you will be able to enjoy wines from the Klein Karoo (from as far afield as Montagu), ostrich and game dishes and clas­sical music. And when you order your wine at res­taur­ants and other ven­ues over this week­end you will only be drink­ing wines from the Klein Karoo region. There will also be wine and port tast­ing events and many of the local res­taur­ants and cel­lars will be host­ing per­form­ances of clas­sical music.

The music over the week­end will be organ­ised by the Oudtshoorn Music Society with assist­ance from Louis Heyneman (the CEO of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra) so you can be sure your ears are in for a treat. And while you ears are being treated to some clas­sical music let your tastebuds be delighted with chocol­ates and spark­ling wine, port, snoek cakes, flame-grilled ostrich, herb bread and marsh­mal­low pud­ding ... Continued

Adopt a Cheetah

Adopt a Cheetah

Adopt a Cheetah, Tiger or Lion ... One can feel a little hope­less in a world where a once almighty animal king­dom is fad­ing slowly out of existence.

Adopting a creature of South Africa will uplift your spir­its and con­serve our wild­life so that the roar of a lion can be heard in the future tense, the race of a chee­tah can be blurred into the dis­tance and the pounce of a tiger can be felt ever­after. Continued