Location: Oudtshoorn
Top Things to do in Oudtshoorn
The 8 Best Nature & Parks in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
Oudtshoorn, the "ostrich capital of the world", is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located between the Swartberg mountains to the north and the Outeniqua Mountains to the south. Two ostrich-feather booms, during 1865-1870 and 1900-1914, truly established the settlement. With approximately 60,000 inhabitants, it is the largest town in the Little Karoo region. The town's economy is primarily reliant on the ostrich farming and tourism industries. Oudtshoorn is home to the world's largest ostrich population, with a number of specialized ostrich breeding farms, such as the Safari Show Farm and the Highgate Ostrich Show Farm.
Restaurants in Oudtshoorn
1. The Cango Caves
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4.5 based on 4,151 reviews
Though damaged through shortsighted tourism schemes in the 1960s, these caves are still worth a visit for their eerie dark tunnels and stunning limestone formations.
Reviewed By magsboy - North Vancouver, Canada
The Cango Caves are well worth the visit to see to large underground caverns and the awesome geologic formations (we only did the Heritage Tour) and you can get some spectacular photos - we took the earliest available tour and glad we did because the tour buses were rolling up when we left and hordes of people were arriving - I do think they need to limit the numbers - and also enforce their requests for visitors not to sit and touch where they are asked not to!
2. Safari Ostrich Show Farm
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4.5 based on 1,566 reviews
Safari Ostrich Farm, established in 1956, welcomes you to the ostrich capital of the world. Come and enjoy the worlds only Tractor tour through a working ostrich farm. Get up close and personal with the worlds largest bird. Take awesome photographs, get to see chicks, feed an ostrich, hold a huge 2,5kg ostrich egg. Get to see different species of ostrich - Kenyan, Zimbabwean, South African and rare white ostriches. Learn about the industry, leather, feathers and carving eggs. A full hour of interesting stuff to see and do. Enjoy our cafe or restaurant for set menu or ala carte options
Reviewed By tobiel2017 - Centurion, South Africa
Fun and interactive tractor tour of the ostrich farm. Educational and interesting. Friendly staff. Exquisite ostrich egg, feather and leather art products at the curio shop. Restaurant serves delicious ostrich burgers and cake! Play area for the kids.
3. Cango Wildlife Ranch
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4.5 based on 2,295 reviews
Cango Wildlife Ranch is internationally recognised as one of South Africa’s premier tourism attractions. Conveniently situated en route to the Cango Caves near Oudtshoorn, the Ranch offers visitors a huge variety of awe-inspiring activities at one location for a value-packed price – suitable for the whole family and open 365 days a year! In addition to our wonderful encounter programs, where you can meet an ambassador cheetah, the ranch also offers two Firsts: Lemur Falls – the first interactive Lemur experience in Africa! - and Crocodile Cage Diving - a World First - where you can test your mettle against the dangerous gaze of a Nile Crocodile via a steel cage lowered into their watery domain! As a PAAZA (Pan-African Association of Zoos and Aquaria) accredited facility, a proud member of WAZA(World Association of Zoos and Aquariums), and a multiple winner of TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence, Cango Wildlife Ranch remains a unique world-class facility which strives to provide conservation through education by means of various conservation projects, initiatives and informative guided tours! A significant percentage of all proceeds go straight back into our conservation initiatives providing you with ethical and unforgettable fun and memories. For unlimited adventure for the whole family – visit Cango Wildlife Ranch!
Reviewed By EllaMacrae
A few days ago my Husband and I visited the Cango Wildlife Ranch and it was such an amazing experience ! I highly recommend the guided tour, our guide Micah made our time there so much fun, she was really informative so a big thank you to her. we could see everybody on the facility really cares about the animals, it was so awesome to see some animals we have never seen before like the white tiger. We will definitely come back, thank you to everyone who made this experience great !
4. De Zeekoe Farm
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4.5 based on 93 reviews
5. Meerkat Magic
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4.5 based on 155 reviews
Reviewed By Lwood0
Be prepared to be up early as you need to meet before sunset, but it's worth every minute. We were quite lucky this morning as we didnt have to wait too long before the Meerkats woke up and came out to play. You need to be patient with this trip, they are living in their natural habitat and they do as they please so I can imagine some mornings they will come out quickly, some mornings you may have to wait around and just see what happens, the company cant predict how they will act that morning. Such a worth while experience we saw all the babies (2 months old) today play fighting and going by their normal day. After a while they started to leave their burrow we was given the option to follow and move closer but we chose to leave after an hour so they could continue on with their day. I would highly suggest a visit, make sure you read your emails carefully as you have to confirm you are attending once you have booked. Our guide was great, very useful information and comical. Rememberable experience.
6. Chandelier Game Lodge & Ostrich Show Farm
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4.0 based on 115 reviews
Reviewed By Mark0928sa - Greater Johannesburg, South Africa
We two friend decided to go to ostrich farm very late when we back from Congo Cave, on the way we go back to George we spent about 1 hour in Chandelier Game Lodge & Ostrich Show Farm for the very unforgettable ostrich guide and tour in the farm, also the ostrich ride experience is very very very interesting, very worthy to go there for the education or time killing, thanks for Chandelier Ostrich Show Farm Jaco’s professional guide that we can know a lot of things of the big bird, its very recommended. 當我們從剛果洞穴回來時，我們兩個朋友決定很晚才決定去鴕鳥養殖場，在我們回喬治的路上，我們在Chandelier Game Lodge＆Ostrich Show Farm花了大約1個小時，難忘的鴕鳥嚮導和農場參觀，而且鴕鳥的騎行經歷非常非常有趣，非常值得去那裡進行教育或消磨時間，這要感謝Chandelier Ostrich Show Farm Jaco的專業指南，我們可以了解很多大鳥的東西，非常推薦。
7. Case Vittoriane
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4.0 based on 2 reviews
