Van Wyksdorp, Little/Klein Karoo South Africa

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  • Опубликовано: 8 дек 2024

Комментарии • 143

  • @themanfromnam8446
    @themanfromnam8446 Год назад +11

    I love this country with every fibre in my being.... even in 2023 with all its problems....

  • @vaughangarrick
    @vaughangarrick Год назад +15

    this country has fantastic hidden gems. I hope one day to retire to a small town like this

  • @dirkbenson8153
    @dirkbenson8153 Год назад +12

    Van Wyksdorp; klein dorpie met 'n GROOT hart!

  • @karooblue7634
    @karooblue7634 Год назад +5

    Klein plekkie met 'n groot hart ❣️hou dit so.

  • @RubeyS12
    @RubeyS12 Год назад +3

    Sunflowers rising over a wire fence.....in a wild and sunny garden - this is etched in my memory - there is so much to love about this dorpie, and the creative spirits who reside there.....

  • @faniecremer4899
    @faniecremer4899 Год назад +13

    Dit is die beskawing daardie, sonder Woolies, groot huise en duur karre.

  • @peterpack8768
    @peterpack8768 Год назад +5

    Wow nice video Thanks

  • @GustavTessa
    @GustavTessa Год назад +11

    Thank you for this wonderful video, This is one of those places you visit and get rest for your soul. The town and its people is beautiful

  • @ddejager7717
    @ddejager7717 Год назад +1

    Lovely, well done. Very much 'n klein stof dorpie', with amazing people. It's beauty lies beneath the surface!

  • @joeblack4436
    @joeblack4436 Год назад +7

    Fighting to keep a dirt road... Wisdom from people who know what really matters.

    • @allanbastard1905
      @allanbastard1905 Год назад +3

      Yeah wasn’t that the best remark 🙏🏻. Fighting to keep a dirt road and completely understand 😃🥃

  • @nethunters
    @nethunters Год назад +10

    Wat een bijzonder dorp! De mensen daar zijn vriendelijk. Mooie kunst maakt die dame! Groeten uit Nederland!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +2

      Hallo, blij dat je het hoort. Bedankt voor het kijken. Groeten uit Zuid-Afrika.

  • @DustBugsTravel
    @DustBugsTravel Год назад +12

    This was great! Those dusty gravel roads everyone kept talking about, are calling our names and we may just have to answer later this year. Thanks for this fantastic introduction to Van Wyksdorp, guys! 🤩🚗

  • @mariomarais5644
    @mariomarais5644 Год назад +12

    Ek was al daar met 'n motorfiets. Goeie grondpad en die nag is fantasies!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +2

      Puik rypad, en fantastiese naghemel. Ons stem saam met jou

  • @AfricanTravelCrew
    @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +11

    Top of my list for destination Town of the year. What a place. What fantastic, interesting people who are fortunate enough to call it home. ❤️

  • @gordonsmithsa115
    @gordonsmithsa115 Год назад +7

    I can’t wait to visit this quaint town one day soon 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @Lynn-1401
    @Lynn-1401 Год назад +17

    Great video, just a bit sad that you only showed a few places and not the whole town. There is so much more than just what was shown here in this video.
    My family have been living here for more than a 100 years. Interesting little town!!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +6

      Hi Angelique, blame it on attention span of youtube veiwers, we can only make it for so long. We would love to go back and do some more stories of the people and the surrounds. Your family sounds fascinating. Thank you for watching, and glad you enjoyed it.

    • @snippetsordinarylife
      @snippetsordinarylife 5 месяцев назад

      @@AfricanTravelCrew You'll be surprised. There are many people who will watch videos longer than 30 minutes. Going over an hour maybe too long.

  • @guitardee1
    @guitardee1 Год назад +5

    What a lovely treasure. I had never heard of VanWyksdorp so really enjoyed this video

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Thanks Denise. We hadn't either. This must easily be our top small town out of 54 so far. ❤️

  • @SancheoTarot
    @SancheoTarot Год назад +4

    Ah, my family lived in this little village years ago and I used to absolutely love visiting there, I'm so chuffed to see that it has remained as it was, yet so beautifully face-lifted. Thanks for this wonderful tour down memory lane, African Travel Crew!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +2

      Thank you for watching. We love it when people share special memories with us. ❤️

    • @AdrianA4M
      @AdrianA4M Год назад +1

      Sancheo is your family the same Lawrence family who owned the general dealer as you enter the town from the west?

    • @SancheoTarot
      @SancheoTarot Год назад

      @Adrian A4M indeed! Yes! My uncle owned that store and the bottle store while my parents lived in the house where the "main road" met the T-junction.

    • @AdrianA4M
      @AdrianA4M Год назад +1

      @@SancheoTarot How interesting. I use to work on Allans farm, with Tony and in that store with Judy, as a kid. Late 80s till 1990. Allan was a family friend. Jannet was also in the friends group. 😄

    • @SancheoTarot
      @SancheoTarot Год назад +1

      @Adrian A4M then it's my honor to meet you! That is so many, many moons ago! 🌙 Thank you so much for sharing your memories - He meant the world to me, and his teachings will always inspire me to go that extra mile. ❤️

  • @salomemalherbe677
    @salomemalherbe677 Год назад +2

    Pragtige dorpie vol mooi mense.

  • @lizeglington6393
    @lizeglington6393 Год назад +11

    Beautifully made . You are very talented Niel and have showcased our little village in a creative and loving way that brings out why we love to call this place home. Thank you for your caring and skill. Do visit us again!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +1

      Thank you Liz for your time and passion. I can't wait to visit again.

    • @attiemarais6795
      @attiemarais6795 Год назад

      +ggg. X

    • @NeoFrontierTechnologies
      @NeoFrontierTechnologies Год назад +1

      Hi :). Do couriers deliver to your town ?

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +3

      @@NeoFrontierTechnologies yes. They have a Pudo box in town as well, and Takealot delivers almost daily.

    • @NeoFrontierTechnologies
      @NeoFrontierTechnologies Год назад

      @@AfricanTravelCrew and the postal service ? Is there post boxes or how does that work over there ?

  • @sararichardson737
    @sararichardson737 Год назад +2

    Some of my happiest times have been had in Karoo dorps. God bless RSA

  • @fwdadventuresza254
    @fwdadventuresza254 Год назад +5

    What an awesome perspective.... Thanks for taking us along 🤝🏼

  • @Szavannasl
    @Szavannasl Год назад +1

    what a beautiful place :)

  • @freedomloveequality6593
    @freedomloveequality6593 Год назад +1

    Awesome video. Bless you good people will come visit soon

  • @karinvantubbergh3418
    @karinvantubbergh3418 Год назад +2

    Great!

  • @marilyndupreez-s8p
    @marilyndupreez-s8p Год назад +3

    It looks gorgeous..lovely
    I went to school in Vosburg foe a year which is close to Van Wyksdorp. Best little town i so loved it there..

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Wow. Thanks for sharing your memory, and spending some time with us. ❤️

    • @Lynn-1401
      @Lynn-1401 Год назад +1

      Vosburg is in the Northern Cape. I think you are thinking about Van Wyksvlei. Van Wyksdorp is in the Western cape near Ladismith.

  • @lesleyohanlon209
    @lesleyohanlon209 Год назад +1

    We almost moved to Van Vyksdorp back in the nineties. This kinda makes me wish we had

  • @ronels1216
    @ronels1216 Год назад +1

    Looks magical. Would love to visit

  • @garagepie
    @garagepie 10 месяцев назад

    Beautiful village and country 🇿🇦

  • @michaeleastwood6755
    @michaeleastwood6755 Год назад

    Love it to bits

  • @bafanamsibi4388
    @bafanamsibi4388 Год назад +7

    This is another part of South Africa that I've never been.

  • @AdrianA4M
    @AdrianA4M Год назад +1

    I spent my school holidays working on the neighbouring farms and at the (Lawrence) general dealer store in the late 80s. Good fun times!

  • @jasongold6751
    @jasongold6751 Год назад

    Wondeilik. Baaie mooi plek met interessante mense.

  • @janinehoward2161
    @janinehoward2161 Год назад +2

    This is how it is, and so much more.

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +1

      100% remarkable little town, with fantastic can-do attitude.

  • @MichaelWilliams-dm1xm
    @MichaelWilliams-dm1xm Год назад +2

    Die mooiste dorpie ooit
    Die beste mense ooit
    Die wonderlike herhinderinge
    Die snymans britse van tonders en my grootste ou maat ou tony dis my mense
    My kinders het daar hul fondasie gehad
    Vandag nog hunket my hart nog soontoe
    So min is oor van daardie tyd
    Ek het n skildery van allen laurens wat vandag nog in my huis hang

  • @coralvorster1173
    @coralvorster1173 Год назад

    It looks like a very quaint village.

  • @Predikant
    @Predikant Год назад +2

    By good fortune I have stumbled upon this great channel, an excellent opening shot on this presentation, well edited, always an interesting story to tell along with superb photography and putting the best foot forward.
    Were I to rate this work it would get a ranking of 12 out of 10
    Keep up the exceptional work!

  • @NeoFrontierTechnologies
    @NeoFrontierTechnologies Год назад +1

    Sweet.

  • @a95569
    @a95569 Год назад

    Fascinating! I'd love to see a similar video featuring De Rust.

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Here you are ruclips.net/video/bYOEFECD04Q/видео.html

    • @a95569
      @a95569 Год назад

      Many thanks!

  • @ferdivosloo341
    @ferdivosloo341 Год назад +52

    Pleas dont promote this place i am a farmer there and its crime free.

  • @joehenry1689
    @joehenry1689 Год назад +2

    Besonders mooi! Ek moet die dorp besoek eendag.

  • @barbarablom5945
    @barbarablom5945 Год назад +6

    Tevrede! Hoeveel mense kan dit sê? Enjoy your lovely town - and each other. So glad I saw this inspiration.

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Thank you for spending some time with us. Come visit soon.❤️

    • @diva444d
      @diva444d Год назад

      My Oupa-grootjie Jacobs het altyd gesê. 'Daar's net 3 "te's" wat goed is... Tevrede, te-voet of te-perd"

  • @osks
    @osks Год назад +2

    Brilliant production - well done! A great reminder of what makes this country so unique and so very special!
    Van Wyks Dorp = Van Wyks Vlei?

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +4

      Thanks Andre, Van Wyksdorp is in the Western Cape inbetween Barrydale and Ladismith. Van Wyksvlei is Northern Cape towards Upington. Which is a completely new story on the cards for later this year.

    • @osks
      @osks Год назад

      Excellent - my Mom was born in van Wyks Vlei, so I look forward to that one!

  • @ianferguson4728
    @ianferguson4728 Год назад +3

    The dream. So far from the chaos and anarchy

  • @faithexplorers1
    @faithexplorers1 Год назад +1

    Bly om nog so dorpie in SA te sien. In Namibia het ons heelwat sulke dorpies met hul stof en sout paaie. Ruil dit vir niks. Groete van Henties Baai, met die vet kabeljou en waar die steenbras en galjoene baljaar.😀

  • @mardapienaar7565
    @mardapienaar7565 9 месяцев назад

    The best pomegranates!!!

  • @rustysa1389
    @rustysa1389 Год назад +2

    Baie mooi dorp .. sal moet kom pannekoek kom eet

  • @redmatters9318
    @redmatters9318 Год назад

    Nice people. Reminds me of Pitcairn Island Look them up..they're looking for independent, tough and resilient people to live there and help them save the place from extinction. PLEASE consider. 🙏. G'day Australia 🇦🇺.

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Be assured. The people of VWD are not going anywhere soon. P. S busy looking up Pitcairn Island 🙄😁

    • @redmatters9318
      @redmatters9318 Год назад

      @@AfricanTravelCrew Thanks for that...perhaps you could become sister towns ? They certainly need compassion those wretched souls. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺. Keep in touch mate.WIKIREDSTAR

  • @mornemoore
    @mornemoore Год назад

    O gats maak seker die walies sien nie die plek nie hulle sal oorvat😁😁. Mooi plek en nog min sulke ou dorpies oor in die land. Die kerk orrel is amazing. Ek kan dink daar is nie baie mense wat hom kan speel nie.

    • @africanayasmin6210
      @africanayasmin6210 3 месяца назад

      Well that is their country and you are only a visitor.

  • @infocus-media
    @infocus-media Год назад +1

    I lived not far from a town just like that, we used to spend many hours there, It was our local, everything, if there we fresh cheese at the General Store, or Potatoes, Carrots, there was a mini shopping spree, when you got there everything everything was already subdivided into bundles so that everybody gets a taste of what is new. There was no arguments about it. If there were only enough patatoes for every family to get 1 potatoe then so it be. The dusty roads, the local band that always play the same songs, the clerk from Barclays bank who came once a week for banking. The oom at the old hotel who was constantly chasing us off his stoep. The same heard of cattle that gets chased down the center of town to get milked at the same time every day. The farmers who puts down their cream and milk cans by the little siding for the train to pickup early in the morning. We had 6 churches for a couple hundred people and You can't miss church service otherwise the Dominee will mention Oom Gawie's missdemenor next Sunday and make us believe that thats why he lost his dog to a recless car drive nect to the 2 Tennis Court Country Club. How I could lie in bed an recognize every single car or bakkie to the sound it makes and who it belongs too, and how everybody congregated at the Hotel because Jannie bought a new bakkie and everybody wanted to see it, sit behind the steering wheel and if you are lucky hop onto the back and get a ride in it. And how I met a girl 40 years later who grew up with me next to town and the first thing we started talking about is why she ate the last Kweper on the tree although she knew it was mine, and how we once again parted without saying good bye properly because of what happened many years ago. I remember how everybody fought over the "lui beert" and how families will not talk to each other for decades because of a family member who was shot by the Boere Commandoes because he was a Boer Traitor, a "Hands Opper" and how the Boer War affected these people and the atrocities that was instigated by the English and who's farms got burnt to the ground and the women and children that got marched for 45 Kilometers to be thrown into the back of a Cattle truck. And how they struggled to make ends meet, and how the "Old Tannies" kept on talking about baby murders after the War ended. We all knew the song with the lines that goes like this "Siem bamba mamma se kindjie.............gooi hom in die sloot trap op sy kop dan is hy dood.." Well it was the Raping by the English (and other people) that caused an avalanche of new born's being dispatched of by midwifes on the orders of Family and the Dominee. These babies never had names, burials, or birth certificates, their mothers never laid eyes on them, they were quietly taken outside by the Midwife and dispatched, thus the song. The hatred of the English was overwhelming, I was probably the first generation who kind of forgot about it but the old "Oomies and Tannies" refused to utter a single English word and still read their Bible in Hoog Hollands (Dutch), but now English and Afrikaners/Boers are one Nation, the English in South Africa has taken up the burden with the Afrikaners and for the first time we talk as one, it is "OUR Boer War" and the English still need to be punished, but we have accepted England as ours, we are not Dutch or German or Scottish, we are English now who happen to speak Afrikaans as well. And that is why the English has the biggest respect for us, Bitter enemies but Highly Trusted and Revered.

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +1

      Thank you for sharing your story. We can so relate and exactly how we grew up. We were the only English in our area, fortunately not punished. Thank you for spending some time with us here, and again for sharing your story.

  • @diva444d
    @diva444d Год назад +1

    Ons soek 'n episode oor hoe die enigste ongeluk by die stopstraat gebeur het!?

  • @Dirkvanwyk
    @Dirkvanwyk Год назад +3

    Ek Wil da bly

  • @ameliamorgan5714
    @ameliamorgan5714 13 дней назад

    Hi. Is daar plek om te bly as ons oornag kuier, of langer wil bly😊

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  13 дней назад

      Daar is baie, hier is ons gunsteling plek www.watermillfarm.co.za/

  • @salomemalherbe677
    @salomemalherbe677 Год назад +2

    Genade kan die Engelse nie Beautifully Bilingual verstaan nie ?

  • @mathewman
    @mathewman Год назад +4

    another ORANIA commencing!!!!

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +3

      Not quite. A mixed town that stands together and gets things done.

    • @allanbastard1905
      @allanbastard1905 Год назад +1

      Always some misery guts to try and take down people that are happy and content

  • @vloglife3113
    @vloglife3113 Год назад

    Hello my relative

  • @andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033
    @andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033 5 месяцев назад

    Je voudrais demander quel matériau utilisent-ils pour construire? terre crue?

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  5 месяцев назад

      Salut, si vous posez des questions sur les maisons en terre. C'est un mélange de boue/argile, de fumier d'animaux et d'herbe

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  5 месяцев назад

      Mon français est très mauvais, je m'en excuse. J'espère avoir répondu à ta question ?

    • @andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033
      @andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033 5 месяцев назад

      @@AfricanTravelCrew merci beaucoup cela a répondu à ma question.

  • @MartinEngelbrecht-ey3rl
    @MartinEngelbrecht-ey3rl Год назад

    3:42 is my sister speaking to a lady.

  • @davevanwyk3070
    @davevanwyk3070 Год назад +1

    Moet die plekkie besoek lyk so rustig

  • @AnneliedeWet
    @AnneliedeWet Год назад +1

    Ja, hou die grondpad asseblief!

  • @koeltefontein
    @koeltefontein Год назад +1

    Appelkoos is not a peach. Appelkoos is an apricot a perske is a peachm

  • @schrire39
    @schrire39 Год назад

    Not the most diverse village

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад

      Where do you stay?

    • @AdrianA4M
      @AdrianA4M Год назад

      You can't force diversity into a place. If you've ever been there, you will know there is nothing there accept nature! Most people will not survive there for a month!

  • @Davidsohn-l8v
    @Davidsohn-l8v Год назад +1

    Can I bring my black friends without fear of them being on the receiving end of Apartheid mentality?

    • @AfricanTravelCrew
      @AfricanTravelCrew  Год назад +2

      Yes you can.

    • @HS-ml8dx
      @HS-ml8dx Год назад +1

      Anyone who respects the environment and the residents will always be received with true VanWyksdorp hospitality.

    • @AdrianA4M
      @AdrianA4M Год назад

      Can I bring my white friends to your town without fear of them being on the receiving end of Colonial mentality?

  • @SionTJobbins
    @SionTJobbins Год назад

    interesting to see small, unknown towns. But would like to have heard more from Coloured people as they are some 85% of the population. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanwyksdorp But still interesting. Love the Afrikaans language. Can the white English speakers speak Afrikaans?

    • @AdrianA4M
      @AdrianA4M Год назад +1

      Most of the coloured people have left, to work on other farms, due to the drought in the area. Only the die-hards still stay there. I think the majority of the locals have left too. We left there in the early 90s.