After a cooldrink in Porterville itself, we checked out the Jan Danckaert Museum. The Museum is not very big, but we were quite impressed by the San (Bushmen) Rock Art exhibition. The mountains in this area contain a lot of well preserved San art, but because it is risky to expose these paintings to people, some good pictures were taken of the paintings and these are now exhibited in the Museum.
Drinks in Porterville.
The San Art exhibition.
"Bulldog" tractor, of course I had to take a picture.
Porterville also has a rather impressive church (for such a small town anyway).
It has competition from its neighbouring town Piketberg though – some more dramatic religious architecture awaits.
On the 22 Waterfall Farm (which lie just outside Porterville) there runs a stream down a rather steep 'kloof' of the Olifants River Mountains. There are 22 waterfalls, big and small, up the 'kloof' and to see all of them is approximately a 9-hour hike. We only had an hour and so we saw just a few of them, but it was worth it - we even had a swim!
Some rock climbing in between the waterfalls.
