{"id":4559,"date":"2020-11-07T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:29:08","slug":"camdeboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Camdeboo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Camdeboo National Park pretty much surrounds the town of Graaff-Reinet.<\/p>\n

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It consists of three separate parts, the main game viewing area around the dam, the Valley of Desolation area on the left, and the 4×4 area on the right. About half of the Valley of Desolation area<\/a> is accessible by car, the other half is marked “4×4”.<\/p>\n

So we left Fish Hoek early on Saturday, N2 to Mossel Bay, R328 to Oudtshoorn, Willowmore, Aberdeen… N1 via Beaufort West would probably have been quicker but it’s always nice to take a road you havn’t seen before.<\/p>\n

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Stopped at the Oppi-Vlak farm stall where they are very proud of their koek.<\/p>\n

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The Camdeboo campsite is nice, except for the plague of monkeys. I understand it’s hard to keep them out, but SanParks do have to pay more attention to this problem, these little guys make the experience less pleasant.<\/p>\n

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Curious mouse.<\/p>\n

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Curious zebra.<\/p>\n

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Curious gemsbok.<\/p>\n

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Lots of baby gemsbok.<\/p>\n

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Three-horned black wildebeest.<\/p>\n

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Wheee!<\/p>\n

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Bat-eared foxes are cute.<\/p>\n

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5c birds. They used to be endangered but these days I think they’re doing better than 5c pieces, which are obsolete.<\/p>\n

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We didn’t see any meerkat, which was a pity.<\/p>\n

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The Camdeboo National Park pretty much surrounds the town of Graaff-Reinet. It consists of three separate parts, the main game viewing area around the dam, the Valley of Desolation area on the left, and the 4×4 area on the right. About half of the Valley of Desolation area is accessible by car, the other half is marked “4×4”. So we left Fish Hoek early on Saturday, N2 to Mossel Bay, R328 to Oudtshoorn, Willowmore, Aberdeen… N1 via Beaufort West would probably have been quicker but it’s always nice to take a road you havn’t seen before. Stopped at the Oppi-Vlak...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}