The Forgotten Route Tour

The Forgotten Route tour only departs on a Friday, as we make use of the Shosholoza Meyl train which runs from Cape Town to Johannesburg on Fridays. The tour departs from the Tourism Information Centre in Cape Town at 8:00AM, we do a short city walk and make our way by means of using our bus to the Kimberley Hotel (official departure point in the old days to the mining fields) before we depart to Rawsonville on our bus where we meet the Le Roux family for a spot of wine tasting at their boutique estate. We board the train at Worcester and travel by train between Worcest

The Forgotten Route tour only departs on a Friday, as we make use of the Shosholoza Meyl train which runs from Cape Town to Johannesburg on Fridays.

The tour departs from the Tourism Information Centre in Cape Town at 8:00AM, we do a short city walk and make our way by means of using our bus to the Kimberley Hotel (official departure point in the old days to the mining fields) before we depart to Rawsonville on our bus where we meet the Le Roux family for a spot of wine tasting at their boutique estate.

We board the train at Worcester and travel by train between Worcester and Matjiesfontein. On the only road that leads in and out of Matjiesfontein, you’ll find a coffee shop, a museum (which our passports gained us free entry into after dinner on our wacky night stroll), an out-of-service two-pump Shell Petrol Station, the Laird’s Arms pub and the Rietfontein Nature Reserve, our evening lodging.

We join John the entertainer for a bizarre bus tour of the town, some honkey tonk in the pub followed by dinner catered for at our lodging, ending of the evening with a night visit to the quirky underground museum.

On Saturday after a fancy breakfast at the Lord Milner Hotel, we visit the famous graveyard before heading to the quaint town of Montagu via the picturesque Koo Valley in our bus. Lunch is at Oupa Batt’s store, a general trading store servicing the local community since 1915, where we’ll get to meet the family, have a behind the scenes look at their biltong and other delicacies production before sitting down for a spread of freshly baked farm bread with homemade jams and cheese before indulging in a variety of potjies (2) served usually with rice or stamp mielies, followed by desert which always remains a surprise till we arrive.

We then stop over at the amazing Montague Dried Fruit & Nuts HQ, famous for their produce of this area. Be prepared to make space in your suit case! The group also has the option to stop over at Route 62 Brewery for amazing hand crafted beers and gin. (this is at own costs and the group’s discretion)
Almost as to bid fare well to this majestic place & period, we fittingly drive underneath an old watch tower, from the world famous Anglo-Boer war era, and make our way lazily back to Cape Town to end your Forgotten Route, never to be forgotten.

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