Knysna (South-Africa) Vacation Travel Video Guide
Travel video about destination Knysna in South-Africa.
Two impressive sandstone cliffs known as The Heads flank the magnificent lagoon of Knysna on the South African coast close to the Indian Ocean. The Knysna Lagoon is not only popular with tourists as the combination of both salt and freshwater from the Outeniqua Mountains also attracts many endangered species of fish. The lagoon is home to the rare Knysna Seahorse that is otherwise known as the Hipocampus Capensis. Moving inland from the estuary and the two Heads the water becomes increasingly calm. Indeed it is difficult to believe that only a few kilometres away lies one of the most treacherous and feared coastlines in the world. But beyond the lagoon's rocks and boulders all is peaceful and idyllic, a place where ornithologists can observe a large variety of birdlife. Due to its magnificent location close to forests, mountains and ocean in addition to its increasing number of leisure facilities, Knysna is one of South Africa's most popular Garden Route destinations.
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Located thirty-four degrees south of the equator, with its name being derived from the Khoikhoi word, meaning Ferns, Knysna is a holiday town on the Garden Route, in South Africa. Having been voted South Africa's favourite holiday destination twice makes it truly a destination where fun is a prerequisite. With George Airport, just 60km away, you have no excuse not to frequent this oasis of possibilities.
Surrounded by lush forests, crystal clear lakes and golden beaches accompanied by balmy summer days, truly reflects the allure of this town once known as sleepy hollow now a bustling lagoon side community.
The town is primarily located on the northern shore of a warm water estuary, fed by the Knysna River. The estuary leads to the Indian Ocean after flowing between two headlands. These are referred to as The Heads, and have become synonymous with Knysna.
Garden ROUTE TRIP | SOUTH AFRICA | KNYSNA | AFRIKA SELATAN
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Garden Route Trip, is a must place to VISIT when you travel to South Africa. Only 5 hours drive from CAPE TOWN, you will discover a totally different landscape from Cape Town.
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1. THESEN ISLAND: one of the most tranquil place I ever stayed.
2. KNYSNA ELEPHANT PARK: a sanctuary for rescued elephants in South Africa. You get to interact with the elephants and take a walk with them.
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George Knysna museum trains in 1998
Knysna is back on track for tourists
Kynsna is still one of the country's best tourist destinations, says SANParks. It was in August when the world looked helplessly as the runaway fires ravaged the area. After the fires, there has been good progress in some portions of the Knysna forest which was affected by the fires. Joining us from our Parliament studios for an update on this is Paddy Gordon, he is the Park Manager for the Garden Route National Park.
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The Living Heritage of Knysna (2014)
The stories of the Khoi, the San, the woodcutters, the furniture makers, the miners, the schoolteachers, and many others who have lived in Knysna over the years, Featuring:
Dr Richard Kutela, Paramount chief of the Kai !Korana Garden Route, Little Karoo and Great Karoo, Premier chief of the Kai !Korana Western Cape
Kai !Korana Dance Group (from George in the Western Cape)
Japie Sonqayi - a lifelong resident of Knysna
Norman Pedro - born in Knysna in 1934
Michal Zeelie - born in Knysna in 1952; woodcutter in the Knysna forest
Hendri Zeelie - born in Knysna in 1953; woodcutter in the Knysna forest
Bettie Moos - born in Uniondale in 1932; resident of Knysna since 1940
Mary Pedro - born in Knysna in 1942; teacher at Eastford Primary School 1962 - 1978
Nicholas Njozela - born in Reversdale in 1967, resident of Knysna since 1976; headmaster at Percy Mdala High School since 2008
Jan Thompson - born in Knysna in 1930
Producer & director: Picca de Bruin
Screenwriter & production manager: Jacques Marais
Editor & camera: Frans Fourie
Camera: Mardi de Klerk
Production assistant: Barry Camphor
Narrated by Chris Gibbons
Funded by Knysna Municipality
Special thanks:
SANParks
Knysna Museum
Millwood Goldfields Society
Mother Holly’s Tea Garden & Museum
Knysna Historical Society
San Ambroso Chapel Museum
GC Terblanche & Seuns
The Woodman’s Timber Merchants
Fechters
The Lofts Boutique Hotel
Skydive Knysna
Tapas & Oysters
A Storyteller Productions Film in association with Sirius Media - 2014
Uploaded to YouTube with the permission of the Municipality of Knysna
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South Africa - The stunning 7 Passes Route between George and Knysna ????
(We travelled from George to Knysna as can be seen in the video clip).
This roadway is a delightful detour off the N2 coastal highway on the Garden Route known as South Africa's Seven Passes (or 7 Passes) route between George and Knysna in the Western Cape. It's a scenic route which passes guest farms, tiny wooden settlements, and whisks visitors through the dramatic Phantom Pass, named for a butterfly and not a ghost.
The Seven Passes route is a 75km long trip that takes you past 7 gorges cut deep by rivers flowing to the sea. Legendary engineer Thomas Bain designed the road in 1883, but it was a sweaty business for the great road engineer.
Not only did he and his crew have to battle through dense bush, he was also constantly at loggerheads with his brother-in-law, Adam de Smidt, who shared the contract. Their differences of opinion concerning the Seven Passes near George were so severe that after the job they were no longer on speaking terms.
In the end, Bain came up trumps and produced a very user-friendly dirt road with his gang of convicts who, amazingly for those times, were actually paid salaries.
Today, you'll drive past tiny villages such as Rheenendal and Karatara, the scene of a brief gold rush in 1975. The 7 rivers for which the gorges are named are the Swart, Hoogekraal, Homtini, Karatara, Silver, Kaaimans, and Touw. You'll traverse single-lane bridges, forestry settlements, picnic at a place called Big Tree and slowly unwind as you absorb the relaxing woodland atmosphere.
One of the main attractions along this route is Millwood, one of the early gold-rush towns in the Outeniqua Mountains, which is also home to another mountain pass near George. In its heyday it had bars, banks, hotels and a police station. Today, there's a guesthouse, a small museum, and a disused mine that is now open to the public.
We visited Highland in Karatara where the late writer George Bernard Shaw had the infamous vehicle accident in which both he and his wife were injured.
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Monkey Sanctuary near Knysna, South Africa, 2017
Monkeys playing during our visit
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OUTINIQUA TRANSPORT MUSEUM, GARDEN ROUTE, SOUTH AFRICA
Outiniqua Transport Museum and the Outiniqua Pass Railway trip. South Africa
This is a look around the museum with its many trains, car display, old stagecoaches. It also features our trip on a power van through the Outiniqua Pass with fantastic scenary.
The Outeniqua Mountains form a mountain range located along the Garden Route of South Africa. They run parallel to the coast and form a continuous range with the Langeberg to the west and the Tsitsikamma Mountains to the east. The range was named Serra da Estrela ('Mountain of the Star') on old Portuguese charts.
In 1908 work started on a railway route over the range from George to Oudtshoorn. This required the building of seven tunnels and numerous long cuttings. The line was opened in August 1913.
The first road pass to cross the range into the Langkloof went via Duiwelskop, some 32 km east of George. In 1811 a new pass was constructed and named Cradock Pass after the Governor, Sir John Cradock. It was difficult to negotiate and became known as the 'Voortrekker Road'. In 1847 a vastly improved Montagu Pass was constructed by convict labour, and named after the Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. In 1943, to cope with the increasing demands of modern traffic, construction was started on the Outeniqua Pass, using the labour of Italian prisoners of war. At the end of World War II the Italians returned home with the greater part of the pass unfinished. The pass was opened to traffic in September 1951, having cost approximately £500 000.
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FROM WHEELCHAIR NOMAD DIARY...2003 SS We drove back to Plettenburg Bay in the dark and checked into a large four-star hotel, directly overlooking the harbour, called Protea Quays, for $140.00 including breakfast. We ate fresh cob and sweetfish at Fishermans Café on the harbour, with a $12.00 bottle of their own red wine. The room contained a roll-in shower, good heater, so after 10.00 pm we slept comfortably. We were up by 9.00 am, enjoyed a shower, followed by large free buffet that came with the room, and then wandered through the tourist sites in the harbour. A wood carving of a tree root turned into four or five nude Zulu ladies reaching upwards enthralled me. There were numerous ocean-going yachts in the harbour including one with a modified airplane wing as a sail. Ive never seen a similar sail. We dropped around to the train station to admire the choo-choo, a narrow gauge steam locomotive that pulls tourist cars fifty kilometres to George.
Knysna - 2017
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치치카마 국립공원은 1964년 아프리카 최초로 국립해양공원으로 지정되었다. 면적은 울릉도보다 약간 작다. 지구상에서 가장 웅장하고 아름다운 해변으로 유명한 곳이다. 아프리카의 오지를 실감케 는 지역으로 사바나의 넓은 초원과 대평원이 펼쳐져 있다. 이곳에는 코끼리, 원숭이, 영양 등의 포유류와 수많은 종류의 조류들이 있다. 이 코끼리 공원에서는 코끼리와 사진도 찍고 코끼리에게 직접 먹이도 줄 수 있다.
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Chichi Kama National Park was designated in 1964 as Africa's first national marine park. The area is slightly smaller than Ulleungdo. The most magnificent and famous for its beautiful beaches on the planet. Kane felt the coming of the wide meadows and plains of the African savannah stretches to the area. Here there is an elephant, a monkey, are numerous types of mammals and birds, such as nutrition. The elephant park in meokyido can give directly to the elephants and elephant taking pictures.
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Chichi Kama National Park ekhethwa ngo-1964 njengoba kazwelonke park zasolwandle wokuqala Afrika. Le ndawo kancane ezincane kuka Ulleungdo. Ezinhle kakhulu futhi laduma amabhishi yayo enhle kule planethi. Kane wazizwa ukufika ezimfundeni ebanzi namathafa African Savannah elula kule ndawo. Lapha kukhona indlovu, a monkey, kukhona izinhlobo eziningi ezincelisayo nezinyoni, ezifana umsoco. The park indlovu in meokyido anganika ngqo izindlovu indlovu ethatha izithombe.
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■클립명: 아프리카045-남아공03-12 치치캄마 공원, 사바나 초원/Tsitsikamma National Park/Savanna/National Maritime Park/Grassland/Pasture
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■촬영일자: 2009년 6월 June
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South African Railways class 24 3660 George to Knysna 1996
Here we see a short clip taken on green painted class 24 no 3660 while on a working from George to Knysna in 1996. The clip is taken as we approach and then cross the famous Kaaimans River bridge. Sadly this line and locomotive are no more, the loco being cut up for scrap in September 2007
South African Railways George to Knysna railway 2003
Here we see a few clips taken in 2003 along the once famous Knysna branch in South Africa. Unfortunately scenes like this are no more as the line has since been closed.
Vintage George-Knysna-Oudshoorn steam trains (South Africa).wmv
Here's a digitized Super-8 movie I took in January 1979, of steam trains in the George-Knysna-Oudshoorn area of South Africa. The quality is crap - one day (in my spare time), I will reclean and reconvert the original film - but for now train buffs: enjoy.
Side note: observe the immaculate condition of train and track. Gone forever.
Touring a Knysna Township
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A beautiful day at the Knysna Heads which guard the entrance to Knysna lagoon.
Knysna Travel Guide - Unique South African Experience
Knysna Travel Guide - Unique South African Experience
Knysna, pearl of the scenic Garden Route, is situated between George and Plettenberg Bay. Perennially green thanks to a Mediterranean Maritime climate with rain falling throughout the year, Knysna is mantled by indigenous forests extending into the Tsitsikamma National Park area.
Nestled between the impressive Outeniqua Mountains and the Indian ocean, the culinary capital of oysters and other delectable seafood is a compulsory stopover on every travelers’ itinerary. At the heart of Knysna is a lagoon protected from the sea by the monolithic sandstone Heads – best explored on board a catamaran or from along hiking paths in the Featherbed Nature Reserve. A hotspot for art and craft, as well as adventure activities such as tree canopy gliding, kloofing and abseiling, Knysna offers something to everybody.
The peculiarity of the origin of the place-name Knysna is commonly explained with a light-hearted joke of two German tourists travelling to Knysna, and upon reaching the lookout point on the eastern Knysna Head, the one says to the other: 'Nice, na?'. On a more serious note, Knysna is believed to be derived from a Khoi word for place of wood, or fern leaves, but most probable straight down or hard to reach - referring to the steep Knysna Heads.
Walking around is the best option or rent a bicycle for longer distances. Except the minibuses there is no public transport so you have to take a taxi if you want. Traffic can become extremely busy during the tourist high season and long queues in and out of Knysna are common.
Many guesthouses, hotels and B&Bs compete for the visitor in off-season, but in high season prices rise and places fill early so book ahead. There are also several nice options out of town (like Brenton-on-Sea and Buffalo Bay) for those with their own transport.
The lagoon is about 18 sq. km and home to at least 200 species of fish is connected with the Indian Ocean through a turbulent channel between The Heads, two sandstone cliffs. Tour around on one of several boats or just take a coffee at the Heads. Take a boat across to the Featherbed Nature Reserve on the Heads (this is an organised tour because it's a private reserve, but it's a good way to spend some time on the lagoon than take a walk in the reserve).
The Knysna Forest is about 80.000 ha are now under conservation. The ‘King Edward VII’ tree (at Diepwalle forest station) is an estimated 600 years old, 39 m at height, and has a circumference of 6 m. The most famous animals are the Knysna elephants. Currently research, involving DNA testing of dung, is being done to see how many of them may still rumble in the jungle, please report any dung sightings! Remember to always take care. There are several hiking trails but you need a car to access the forest. Don't forget the conservation motto Take only photographs, leave only footprints!.
Pledge Nature Reserve offers 3.5 km of pathways through scrub forest and hillside fynbos with fine views over the lagoon and is just 500 meters of the town centre. A nice place for a walk in the afternoon.
Millwood Gold Fields site of one of the first gold rushes in South Africa, the Millwood Museum and Materoli Tea Room (be sure to try a piece of Jayne's World Famous Chocolate Cake) offers a unique and fascinating view of the greed, entrepreneurship, energy, and ultimate failure of the first gold discovered in South Africa during the late 1800's. Tours through the old gold diggings are available.
A lot to see in Knysna such as :
Brenton-on-Sea
Featherbed Private Nature Reserve
Garden Route National Park
View point Eastern Knysna Head
Leisure Island
Ocean Odyssey Whale Watching Knysna
Diepwalle Forest
Knysna-Amatole montane forests
Pezula Championship Course
Featherbed Co
Pledge Nature Reserve
Buffalo Bay Beach
Knysna Fine Art
Margaret´s Viewpoint
Brenton Beach
Judah Square
Knysna River
Bollards Bay Beach
East Head View Point
Old Gaol
Coney Glen Beach Knysna
Goukamma Marine Protected Area
Steenbok Nature Reserve
Thesen House
Knysna Harbour
Brackenhill Waterfall
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