A trip to Oudtshoorn - part 2

With Saturday being our last full day in Oudtshoorn we had to fit both the other 2 planned outings into 1 day.
First up was the Cango Caves, we went with another dancer and his mom who, through a contact, managed to organise a discount so we only paid for 2 people instead of 5!!
This too was a very informative and interesting tour, I was amazed how much of what we heard the girls have actually remembered and retold to other people!

The first chamber boasts this impressive formation called "the organ pipes" for obvious reasons!

And also Cleopatra's finger (Abigail is standing to the left!).

 Niave making herself comfortable!

If I remember correctly these are called "the petrified tobacco leaves of Oudtshoorn" - but I may not be remembering correctly! It does look like drying tobacco leaves though, don't you think??!!

The second chamber.

This looked like a castle to us but it's called "the 12 poster bed" or something to that effect.

These freaky looking things look like witches fingers!

This formation, to me, looked like a drip castle that you would make on the beach, only it took a little longer to make this one!!

The photo's don't really do it justice at all. We went on the Standard Tour which goes half way through the system, after that and after a staircase of 100 steps (that you have to climb twice!) it gets a lot smaller and tighter, but it was quite stuffy and unexpectedly warm in there and we were ready to return to the air!

That afternoon Grant had to dance so we went "home" to help him get ready and drop him off before heading to our next destination, Cango Ostrich Farm.

Here he is looking very flamboyant in his new Latin top - so much bling!!! 

Next up we were off to the Cango Ostrich Farm to learn about Ostriches.

I wasn't that impressed with this tour, but the girls enjoyed it and we did learn a lot, including that ostriches are really rather smelly and it is a very good thing that they can't fly!

 It's quite hard to get a decent picture of an ostrich, they are not still for a minute!

Hope those eggs don't break!!

With Grant at the dancing until well into the early hours of the morning, we were on our own for supper so we headed to the Spur before going home to bundle ourselves up in warm pyjamas - although we had 3 beautiful, warm sunny days there, the mornings and nights were very cold.

Sunday morning was spent packing up and getting ready to leave, by lunchtime we were on the road, this time we went via George and the Outeniqua Pass having come in via Mossel Bay and the Robinson Pass. 

We hadn't gone far when we were once again brought to a sudden halt when Grant yelled "Hey, look, what's that? Giraffe!!"

There were about 6 in total.

I just love giraffe.

And so our holiday was drawing to a close, the loooong road ahead of us. 

As we came over Sir Lowry's Pass after sunset with Somerset West and Cape Town below, Niave exclaimed with great astonishment "Wow! We went into the desert and we survived"!!!

We had a wonderful time but we were glad to be home in our own beds and to see our 3 kitties who were well looked after and fed by Ouma and Oupa.