Van Wyksdorp, Little/Klein Karoo South Africa

[@themanfromnam8446]

I love this country with every fibre in my being.... even in 2023 with all its problems....

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

So do we ❤️💯

[@vaughangarrick]

this country has fantastic hidden gems. I hope one day to retire to a small town like this

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

We're sure you will ❤️

[@RubeyS12]

Sunflowers rising over a wire fence.....in a wild and sunny garden - this is etched in my memory - there is so much to love about this dorpie, and the creative spirits who reside there.....

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

What a lovely memory you have shared. Thank you

[@GustavTessa]

Thank you for this wonderful video, This is one of those places you visit and get rest for your soul. The town and its people is beautiful

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

We couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching Gustav.

[@karooblue7634]

Klein plekkie met 'n groot hart ❣️hou dit so.

[@nethunters]

Wat een bijzonder dorp! De mensen daar zijn vriendelijk. Mooie kunst maakt die dame! Groeten uit Nederland!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Hallo, blij dat je het hoort. Bedankt voor het kijken. Groeten uit Zuid-Afrika.

[@DustBugsTravel]

This was great! Those dusty gravel roads everyone kept talking about, are calling our names and we may just have to answer later this year. Thanks for this fantastic introduction to Van Wyksdorp, guys! 🤩🚗

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Van Wyksdorp is waiting ❤️

[@itsmyparty4637]

it certainly is an amaazing, incredible town! :)

[@dirkbenson8153]

Van Wyksdorp; klein dorpie met 'n GROOT hart!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Top of my list for destination Town of the year. What a place. What fantastic, interesting people who are fortunate enough to call it home. ❤️

[@ddejager7717]

Lovely, well done. Very much 'n klein stof dorpie', with amazing people. It's beauty lies beneath the surface!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you for spending some time with us.

[@fwdadventuresza254]

What an awesome perspective.... Thanks for taking us along 🤝🏼

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thanks for spending some time with us.

[@faniecremer4899]

Dit is die beskawing daardie, sonder Woolies, groot huise en duur karre.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

100%

[@joeblack4436]

Fighting to keep a dirt road... Wisdom from people who know what really matters.

[@allanbastard1905]

Yeah wasn’t that the best remark 🙏🏻. Fighting to keep a dirt road and completely understand 😃🥃

[@peterpack8768]

Wow nice video Thanks

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thanks Peter

[@guitardee1]

What a lovely treasure. I had never heard of VanWyksdorp so really enjoyed this video

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thanks Denise. We hadn't either. This must easily be our top small town out of 54 so far. ❤️

[@Lynn-1401]

Great video, just a bit sad that you only showed a few places and not the whole town. There is so much more than just what was shown here in this video. My family have been living here for more than a 100 years. Interesting little town!!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Hi Angelique, blame it on attention span of youtube veiwers, we can only make it for so long. We would love to go back and do some more stories of the people and the surrounds. Your family sounds fascinating. Thank you for watching, and glad you enjoyed it.

[@snippetsordinarylife]

@@AfricanTravelCrew You'll be surprised. There are many people who will watch videos longer than 30 minutes. Going over an hour maybe too long.

[@sararichardson737]

Some of my happiest times have been had in Karoo dorps. God bless RSA

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

They still make us happy. ❤️

[@SancheoTarot]

Ah, my family lived in this little village years ago and I used to absolutely love visiting there, I'm so chuffed to see that it has remained as it was, yet so beautifully face-lifted. Thanks for this wonderful tour down memory lane, African Travel Crew!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you for watching. We love it when people share special memories with us. ❤️

[@AdrianA4M]

Sancheo is your family the same Lawrence family who owned the general dealer as you enter the town from the west?

[@SancheoTarot]

@Adrian A4M indeed! Yes! My uncle owned that store and the bottle store while my parents lived in the house where the "main road" met the T-junction.

[@AdrianA4M]

@@SancheoTarot How interesting. I use to work on Allans farm, with Tony and in that store with Judy, as a kid. Late 80s till 1990. Allan was a family friend. Jannet was also in the friends group. 😄

[@SancheoTarot]

@Adrian A4M then it's my honor to meet you! That is so many, many moons ago! 🌙 Thank you so much for sharing your memories - He meant the world to me, and his teachings will always inspire me to go that extra mile. ❤️

[@mariomarais5644]

Ek was al daar met 'n motorfiets. Goeie grondpad en die nag is fantasies!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Puik rypad, en fantastiese naghemel. Ons stem saam met jou

[@freedomloveequality6593]

Awesome video. Bless you good people will come visit soon

[@lizeglington6393]

Beautifully made . You are very talented Niel and have showcased our little village in a creative and loving way that brings out why we love to call this place home. Thank you for your caring and skill. Do visit us again!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you Liz for your time and passion. I can't wait to visit again.

[@attiemarais6795]

+ggg. X

[@NeoFrontierTechnologies]

Hi :). Do couriers deliver to your town ?

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

@@NeoFrontierTechnologies yes. They have a Pudo box in town as well, and Takealot delivers almost daily.

[@NeoFrontierTechnologies]

@@AfricanTravelCrew and the postal service ? Is there post boxes or how does that work over there ?

[@marilyndupreez-s8p]

It looks gorgeous..lovely I went to school in Vosburg foe a year which is close to Van Wyksdorp. Best little town i so loved it there..

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Wow. Thanks for sharing your memory, and spending some time with us. ❤️

[@Lynn-1401]

Vosburg is in the Northern Cape. I think you are thinking about Van Wyksvlei. Van Wyksdorp is in the Western cape near Ladismith.

[@gordonsmithsa115]

I can’t wait to visit this quaint town one day soon 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Szavannasl]

what a beautiful place :)

[@garagepie]

Beautiful village and country 🇿🇦

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Def one of our favorites 😍

[@salomemalherbe677]

Pragtige dorpie vol mooi mense.

[@ronels1216]

Looks magical. Would love to visit

[@AdrianA4M]

I spent my school holidays working on the neighbouring farms and at the (Lawrence) general dealer store in the late 80s. Good fun times!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

What a time to be alive. Good memories I'm sure.

[@lesleyohanlon209]

We almost moved to Van Vyksdorp back in the nineties. This kinda makes me wish we had

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

It's never too late. ❤️

[@michaeleastwood6755]

Love it to bits

[@karinvantubbergh3418]

Great!

[@Predikant]

By good fortune I have stumbled upon this great channel, an excellent opening shot on this presentation, well edited, always an interesting story to tell along with superb photography and putting the best foot forward. Were I to rate this work it would get a ranking of 12 out of 10 Keep up the exceptional work!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you for your vote of confidence.

[@coralvorster1173]

It looks like a very quaint village.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

It's fascinating.

[@jasongold6751]

Wondeilik. Baaie mooi plek met interessante mense.

[@bafanamsibi4388]

This is another part of South Africa that I've never been.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

You'll love it. ❤️

[@janinehoward2161]

This is how it is, and so much more.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

100% remarkable little town, with fantastic can-do attitude.

[@a95569]

Fascinating! I'd love to see a similar video featuring De Rust.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Here you are kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIqydnl7eKljarM

[@a95569]

Many thanks!

[@barbarablom5945]

Tevrede! Hoeveel mense kan dit sê? Enjoy your lovely town - and each other. So glad I saw this inspiration.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you for spending some time with us. Come visit soon.❤️

[@diva444d]

My Oupa-grootjie Jacobs het altyd gesê. 'Daar's net 3 "te's" wat goed is... Tevrede, te-voet of te-perd"

[@MichaelWilliams-dm1xm]

Die mooiste dorpie ooit Die beste mense ooit Die wonderlike herhinderinge Die snymans britse van tonders en my grootste ou maat ou tony dis my mense My kinders het daar hul fondasie gehad Vandag nog hunket my hart nog soontoe So min is oor van daardie tyd Ek het n skildery van allen laurens wat vandag nog in my huis hang

[@osks]

Brilliant production - well done! A great reminder of what makes this country so unique and so very special! Van Wyks Dorp = Van Wyks Vlei?

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thanks Andre, Van Wyksdorp is in the Western Cape inbetween Barrydale and Ladismith. Van Wyksvlei is Northern Cape towards Upington. Which is a completely new story on the cards for later this year.

[@osks]

Excellent - my Mom was born in van Wyks Vlei, so I look forward to that one!

[@NeoFrontierTechnologies]

Sweet.

[@joehenry1689]

Besonders mooi! Ek moet die dorp besoek eendag.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Van Wyksdorp wag vir jou

[@joehenry1689]

@@AfricanTravelCrew 🤣

[@ferdivosloo341]

Pleas dont promote this place i am a farmer there and its crime free.

[@HS-ml8dx]

Ek stem!

[@matthysjuys6884]

Ek verstaan

[@sonjatait4089]

Ek stem saam!! 👍

[@redmatters9318]

Story teller Vosloo. Carefully your nose will grow mate. G'day.

[@redmatters9318]

@@HS-ml8dx Fibber.

[@mardapienaar7565]

The best pomegranates!!!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Oh yes.

[@faithexplorers1]

Bly om nog so dorpie in SA te sien. In Namibia het ons heelwat sulke dorpies met hul stof en sout paaie. Ruil dit vir niks. Groete van Henties Baai, met die vet kabeljou en waar die steenbras en galjoene baljaar.😀

[@ianferguson4728]

The dream. So far from the chaos and anarchy

[@redmatters9318]

Nice people. Reminds me of Pitcairn Island Look them up..they're looking for independent, tough and resilient people to live there and help them save the place from extinction. PLEASE consider. 🙏. G'day Australia 🇦🇺.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Be assured. The people of VWD are not going anywhere soon. P. S busy looking up Pitcairn Island 🙄😁

[@redmatters9318]

@@AfricanTravelCrew Thanks for that...perhaps you could become sister towns ? They certainly need compassion those wretched souls. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺. Keep in touch mate.WIKIREDSTAR

[@mornemoore]

O gats maak seker die walies sien nie die plek nie hulle sal oorvat😁😁. Mooi plek en nog min sulke ou dorpies oor in die land. Die kerk orrel is amazing. Ek kan dink daar is nie baie mense wat hom kan speel nie.

[@africanayasmin6210]

Well that is their country and you are only a visitor.

[@infocus-media]

I lived not far from a town just like that, we used to spend many hours there, It was our local, everything, if there we fresh cheese at the General Store, or Potatoes, Carrots, there was a mini shopping spree, when you got there everything everything was already subdivided into bundles so that everybody gets a taste of what is new. There was no arguments about it. If there were only enough patatoes for every family to get 1 potatoe then so it be. The dusty roads, the local band that always play the same songs, the clerk from Barclays bank who came once a week for banking. The oom at the old hotel who was constantly chasing us off his stoep. The same heard of cattle that gets chased down the center of town to get milked at the same time every day. The farmers who puts down their cream and milk cans by the little siding for the train to pickup early in the morning. We had 6 churches for a couple hundred people and You can't miss church service otherwise the Dominee will mention Oom Gawie's missdemenor next Sunday and make us believe that thats why he lost his dog to a recless car drive nect to the 2 Tennis Court Country Club. How I could lie in bed an recognize every single car or bakkie to the sound it makes and who it belongs too, and how everybody congregated at the Hotel because Jannie bought a new bakkie and everybody wanted to see it, sit behind the steering wheel and if you are lucky hop onto the back and get a ride in it. And how I met a girl 40 years later who grew up with me next to town and the first thing we started talking about is why she ate the last Kweper on the tree although she knew it was mine, and how we once again parted without saying good bye properly because of what happened many years ago. I remember how everybody fought over the "lui beert" and how families will not talk to each other for decades because of a family member who was shot by the Boere Commandoes because he was a Boer Traitor, a "Hands Opper" and how the Boer War affected these people and the atrocities that was instigated by the English and who's farms got burnt to the ground and the women and children that got marched for 45 Kilometers to be thrown into the back of a Cattle truck. And how they struggled to make ends meet, and how the "Old Tannies" kept on talking about baby murders after the War ended. We all knew the song with the lines that goes like this "Siem bamba mamma se kindjie.............gooi hom in die sloot trap op sy kop dan is hy dood.." Well it was the Raping by the English (and other people) that caused an avalanche of new born's being dispatched of by midwifes on the orders of Family and the Dominee. These babies never had names, burials, or birth certificates, their mothers never laid eyes on them, they were quietly taken outside by the Midwife and dispatched, thus the song. The hatred of the English was overwhelming, I was probably the first generation who kind of forgot about it but the old "Oomies and Tannies" refused to utter a single English word and still read their Bible in Hoog Hollands (Dutch), but now English and Afrikaners/Boers are one Nation, the English in South Africa has taken up the burden with the Afrikaners and for the first time we talk as one, it is "OUR Boer War" and the English still need to be punished, but we have accepted England as ours, we are not Dutch or German or Scottish, we are English now who happen to speak Afrikaans as well. And that is why the English has the biggest respect for us, Bitter enemies but Highly Trusted and Revered.

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you for sharing your story. We can so relate and exactly how we grew up. We were the only English in our area, fortunately not punished. Thank you for spending some time with us here, and again for sharing your story.

[@rustysa1389]

Baie mooi dorp .. sal moet kom pannekoek kom eet

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Doen dit. Moenie skaam wees nie 😁

[@diva444d]

Ons soek 'n episode oor hoe die enigste ongeluk by die stopstraat gebeur het!?

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

💯 Sal Heidi vrae 😉😂

[@ameliamorgan5714]

Hi. Is daar plek om te bly as ons oornag kuier, of langer wil bly😊

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Daar is baie, hier is ons gunsteling plek www.watermillfarm.co.za/

[@Dirkvanwyk]

Ek Wil da bly

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Dis mooi wereld

[@andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033]

Je voudrais demander quel matériau utilisent-ils pour construire? terre crue?

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Salut, si vous posez des questions sur les maisons en terre. C'est un mélange de boue/argile, de fumier d'animaux et d'herbe

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Mon français est très mauvais, je m'en excuse. J'espère avoir répondu à ta question ?

[@andriamandimbiarisoaradots6033]

@@AfricanTravelCrew merci beaucoup cela a répondu à ma question.

[@salomemalherbe677]

Genade kan die Engelse nie Beautifully Bilingual verstaan nie ?

[@mathewman]

another ORANIA commencing!!!!

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Not quite. A mixed town that stands together and gets things done.

[@allanbastard1905]

Always some misery guts to try and take down people that are happy and content

[@vloglife3113]

Hello my relative

[@davevanwyk3070]

Moet die plekkie besoek lyk so rustig

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Die dorp wag vir jou

[@AnneliedeWet]

Ja, hou die grondpad asseblief!

[@MartinEngelbrecht-ey3rl]

3:42 is my sister speaking to a lady.

[@koeltefontein]

Appelkoos is not a peach. Appelkoos is an apricot a perske is a peachm

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Thank you. Have corrected.

[@schrire39]

Not the most diverse village

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Where do you stay?

[@AdrianA4M]

You can't force diversity into a place. If you've ever been there, you will know there is nothing there accept nature! Most people will not survive there for a month!

[@Davidsohn-l8v]

Can I bring my black friends without fear of them being on the receiving end of Apartheid mentality?

[@AfricanTravelCrew]

Yes you can.

[@HS-ml8dx]

Anyone who respects the environment and the residents will always be received with true VanWyksdorp hospitality.

[@AdrianA4M]

Can I bring my white friends to your town without fear of them being on the receiving end of Colonial mentality?

[@SionTJobbins]

interesting to see small, unknown towns. But would like to have heard more from Coloured people as they are some 85% of the population. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanwyksdorp But still interesting. Love the Afrikaans language. Can the white English speakers speak Afrikaans?

[@AdrianA4M]

Most of the coloured people have left, to work on other farms, due to the drought in the area. Only the die-hards still stay there. I think the majority of the locals have left too. We left there in the early 90s.