Carnarvon (C13)

Name:Carnarvon

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Date: 24 Sept 2008

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The town itself is a two Pep Stores kind of place, fairly large, brooded over by an Anglo Boer War fort on top of Carnarvon Koppie. On Market Plein, next to the old market bell, the 147-year-old Rhenish church sits firm. Well sort of as the local entrepreneur, Henk van den Bergh, relates, the cockerel weather vane is skew, thanks to a brawl of hunters who got drunk on the balcony of a nearby hotel and decided to play target practice with the unfortunate fowl. It hasn't been fixed since and now the cocked cockerel is something of a landmark, along with the rebuilt corbelled house next to the museum and the Blik Bar, with its 4 000-odd beer can collection.

Henk's a character. He runs the Ou Kraal collection of budget guesthouses scattered through town. When he's not behind the counter at the Ou Kraal café or serving plates of Van Wyksvlei lamb in his, yup, Ou Kraal Kombuis, he keeps busy running a popular see-the-Northern-Cape 4x4 tour, which meanders all round the province

Carnarvon is one of those onion Karoo dorps; peel back the layers to find the good stuff. Go and look at the abandoned railway station's mural; find the hidden antique shop in Church Street; ask Henk to take you to the immense but forgotten railway graveyard just outside of town.

Much more: http://www.getaway.co.za/content/magazine/features/feature.asp?id=961Where to stay:

History, property sales & accomodation - http://www.carnarvon.co.za/