Last Minute Car Rentals - Worcester Travel Guide in the Winelands - South Africa

Since it has some interesting tourist attractions to offer, worcester lies at the N1 freeway connecting Cape Town and Johannesburg and is an ideal place for a stopover. The town today is mainly the service centre for the surrounding wine and fruit growing areas in the Breede River Valley. The town of Worcester in South Africa was founded in 1822.

Spun wool and much more, milled wheat, forged horseshoes, rolled tobacco, visitors can watch how they manufactured soap. Actors in historical dresses reinvoke the rural life of the old days. A hut of the Trekboers and a Khoikhoi camp have been rebuilt and furnished true to detail, a farm from the 18th century. At the Kleinplasie open-air museum one can gain an insight into the living conditions of the first settlers.

Where one can gain an insight into art of brandy distillation, definitely worth a visit is the KWV Brandy Cellar. Where one can savor the excellent Breede River wines, worcester offers a big Wine Tasting Centre, to the wine lover.

In this 144 hectare semi-desert nature reserve one can find a whole spectrum of Karoo plants. About one kilometer north of Worcester, another attraction is the Karoo National Botanical Garden.

Thermal winds and weather conditions in the Breede River Valley are excellent most of the year. Try flying themselves, under the supervision of a teacher, visitors are welcome and can. Flying activities are usually limited to the weekends only. A towing aircraft and a tarred runway, the Cape Gliding Club owns a whole range of one or two-seater glider planes. Glider-flying enthusiasts find the only glider flying airfield in the Cape in Worcester.

It has become the business and shopping centre for the entire valley and surrounding towns, with its wide range of services and commercial facilities. Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, worcester lies on the main route to and from Cape Town.

Things to See and Do:

Kleinplasie:

As well as the Reptile World, restaurant and wine cellar, an Open Air Living Museum, the Complex (next to the Robertson Road) comprises the agricultural showground's.

Kleinplasie Open Air Living Museum:

Throughout the year a variety of activities are presented. The unique open air museum depicts the lifestyle of the early pioneer farmers.

Karoo National Botanical Garden:

Its greenhouse boast world famous collections of stone plants. Features the unique plants of the drier parts of the country, this jewel of a garden with 144ha of natural semi-desert vegetation and 10ha of landscaped gardens.

Brandy Route:

By visiting the cellars along the Brandy Route, public awareness was roused and brandy-lovers set about finding out more about the production and finer side of this noble fruit of the vine. Causing a stir amongst the world media, the world's first Brandy Route was introduced, during the 325th brandy producing year in South Africa in 1997.

Huge maturation cellar and demonstrations of the ancient craft of barrel-making by the coopers, it's uniqueness lies in the 120 Woudberg potstills. Is one of eight cellars on the Brandy Route, the largest of its kind in the world, the KWV Cellar.

It is the only cellar in South Africa to practice the famous Spanish Solera method of maturation and blending. For the distillation of high quality colombar wines, france, similiar to those used in Cognac, it accommodates 22 Woudberg copper potstills, small but prolific. Is the other cellar in the Worcester region, at Goudine, the Olof Bergh Solera Cellar.

Institute for the Blind:

Visitors are invited to come and see how the visually impaired are trained and how they work.

Institute for the Deaf:

Visitors are invited to come and see how the hearing impaired are trained and how they work.

Nuwe Hoop Centre for the Hearing Impaired:

Visitors are welcome. A centre where children between the ages of three and twenty one years receive formal and technical training.

Architectural Walking Routes:

Brochures are available at the Tourism Bureau. This enables the visitor to take an easy walk through town and visit some prime examples of early architecture. Worcester was laid out according to a definite plan with parallel streets.

Gift and Antique Shops:

Several interesting shops are dotted around town.