• Day -1 Quick stop in Clarens

    October 18, 2017 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Almost there, a quick stop before finishing off the day in Golden Gate National Park.
    Clarens, a small town situated in the Eastern Free State is today a tourist attraction and capital of everything from adventure to art.

    The town is over 100 years old, there’s a lot of history that adds to making the town into what it is today. A great variety of fossils from teeth, claws and limb bones indicate that there were prehistoric giants of dinosaurs that roamed in the town before the bush men who were the first people to dwell in the town came into the scene, as evident of Khoisan Hunter gatherers shown on the town’s rock art.
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