Western Cape -- ostriches and wine

Oudtshoorn, the town famous for ostrich farms, was our next port of call. We turned inland and found ourselves in the small, dusty town that became wealthy off the fashion for ostrich feathers in the late 1800s. We took a tour of a farm with thousands of the birds before booking into our farmhouse B&B and doing the adventure tour at the Cango caves. We ate some excellent homecooked food for dinner and breakfast before heading off to Calitzdorp to do some port tasting (it was only 10am but we had a busy day planned). We carried on down Route 62 to Montagu, where we spent the afternoon in the hot springs, wine tasting and organsing a huge braai for our evening meal. The following day we spent exploring several small towns along the wine route including McGregor, Robertson and stopping in Worcester to go to the botanical gardens and the interesting Kleinplassie working farm/museum. We spent the

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night in a listed building in Tulburg, the former home of a Boer hero, and then raced to Franschhoek where we were scheduled to take a chocolate tour, but for the first time we hit major roadworks. The business gave us consolation chocolates and a brief look behind the scenes, and we spent the afternoon exploring and taking a cellar tour at the Mont Rochelle vineyards. The next day we went to Stellanbosch, where we saw some of the amature golf championship, walked the small university campus and ate some Cape Malay food. A bit bored of wine tasting, we decided to do some more whale watching, so we headed down to Hermanus. Our reward was five southern right whales playing right in front of us that afternoon and a great seafood dinner that night. E