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 When the Boers trekked away form British rule at the Cape in 1836, they crossed the Orange River and found vast, sparsely inhabited grasslands dotted with kopjes and teeming with game. Here they out spanned their oxen, built homesteads and cultivated crops. Today, this immense, rolling prairie is cloaked with enormous agricultural fields, and the N1 highway links modern towns and rich gold mines, following a similar route to the trail blazed by the
Voortrekkers.
Away from the streamlined highways, you will discover the unique, intriguing character of the province. Quiet villages where life goes by at an enviable, carefree tempo; magnificent sandstone cliffs and mountains soaring high; hiking tails meandering through green valleys, and Bushman paintings evoking images of distant battles, dreams and legends
And then there are the rivers. The ever-popular playgrounds of the Orange in the south, and its major tributary, the Vaal, attract scores of holiday-makers. Besides water sports, outdoor enthusiasts have unlimited opportunities for horse-riding, game-viewing, hunting and bird-watching.
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