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Bredasdorp Tourism Information

Bredasdorp  Population = 10 000

Bredasdorp is the focal point of the wool and wheat industry in the area.  Founded in 1838 by Michiel van Breda who was the first mayor of Cape Town and a member of the Legislative Council, on the farm Langefontein, Bredasdorp is the centre of a thriving grain, sheep and wild flower (fynbos) farming district a the Southern tip of Africa.  

The old farm homestead, which is now a national monument, houses the Shipwreck Museum, containing a fascinating collection of artifacts recovered from the local coastline, recording the many shipwrecks which have taken place along the Agulhas Bank.  Bredasdorp is ideally situated as a base from which to explore the surrounding countryside and seaside villages.

A summer visitor to this region is the White Stork.  These birds from Europe breed during the European summer and make the long journey south during our summer.  They can be seen in large flocks feeding on insects and locusts.  The Blue Crane, South Africa's national bird is common in the region and can be seen in pairs or in groups, foraging in grain fields alongside the highways to this part of the world.
 

De Hoop Nature Reserve is one of the Western Cape best known nature reserves - and with good reason.

It lies on the southern Cape coast, and is renowned for its floral fynbos diversity, rich bird life, natural vlei and wild antelope. It is also provides the backdrop to some of the world's best whale-watching possible.

Just 3 hours drive from Cape Town, and 50km east of Bredasdorp, if offers visitors the choice to explore a pristine coastline, a large vlei, limestone hills, extensive dunes and the Potberg mountains.

It is a botanist's dream, with 50 of its 1500 fynbos plant species found nowhere else in the world.

For animal lovers there are endangered bontebok and Cape mountain zebra, while baboons, ostriches, eland, grey rhebuck, duiker and steenbok are all common sights.

Known to amateur and working ornithologists alike, the De Hoop vlei is forever changing. A wetland recognised by the Ramsar convention as being of international importance, the vlei's uniqueness lies in its partial location in a gorge, while for the most it is a 16km-long lake, blocked off from the sea by coastal dunes.

It draws a variety of birds during the year, especially waterfowl and waders.

During scenic drives, visitors may leave their cars and walk anywhere in the reserve. Game viewing and birding is possible at every turn.

The area can also be explored on various day walks around the vlei, along the coast or at Potberg.

Or simply perch yourself next to the vlei for excellent birding, or relax on a dune to watch whales. More than 70 giants are regularly seen lazing just behind the breakers!

Biking is possible on most of the roads around the De Hoop side of the reserve, and no special permit is required.

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