GAME FARM. Have seventeen species of game on farm, three fountains and two dams.
The Jansenville area offers visitors a typical Karoo experience - clear skies with the brightest stars at night, clean air, wide open spaces, a rich history, comfortable guest houses, succulent Karoo cuisine, prehistoric fossils, guest farm activities, hunting opportunities for local and foreign hunters. Jansenville offers several small town events worth attending. Cricket, golf, rugby, tennis and bowls are played and visitors are always welcome. Although Jansenville is a small Karoo town it has all the necessary churches of which the Dutch Reformed Church is declared a national monument. The primary and secondary schools have a hostel and boasts with a 100% passing rate the last few years. Jansenville is north of the Zuurberg Mountains in an area known as the Noorsveld, after a cactus-like succulent, the Noors (Euphorbia Couroulescens) that abounds in the district. When they are chopped their spikes fall off and there is plentiful feed for the highly valuable goats and sheep, especially during droughts. Between Jansenville and the Zuurberg to the south is a plain that marks the northern boundary of the Addo National Park, while to the north are some hills which are a scenic drive and, at the summit, shortly before the giddy descent down the Ratelskloof Pass, one has a spectacular view across the Camdeboo plains to the peaks of the Sneeuberg. Jansenville is game country and there are game farms and hunting concessions in the area as well as nature reserves including the Addo Elephant National Park. Both the South-African Mohair Grower's Association and the Angora Goat Stud Breeders' Society of South-Africa, are located in Jansenville.The leading Angora studs and the biggest concentration of stud breeders are found in the Jansenville district. When it was decided to establish the experimental farm for Angora Goats, a property was bought bordering the town of Jansenville, because the vegetation was considered most suitable for Angora goats. Angora goats form the main branch of farming in the Jansenville district, and while wool and meat are also produced, the economy of the town and district depends largely on the diamond fibre. Contact: Deon Taljaard 082 578 2273 Click here to Translate
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Bathrooms
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Square M Covered
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Schools
Jansenville Primary School Janensenville High School and Hostel Gncubuzwe Combines School Union Preparatory & High School Graaff-Reinet Volkskool Primary & High School Graaff-Reinet
Vicinity
The closest big town is Graaff-Reinet (80km). Surrounded by the Camdeboo National Park, Graaff-Reinet, the heart of the "Great Karoo" - Place of Thirst - is a boundless and mysterious area where broad plains roll away to distant koppies and multilayered mountains that seem to touch the indigo sky. Fossils of some of the earliest forms of one-celled life have been discovered here, indicating that life has existed in this region for three billion years. The richness of pre-dinosaur fossils in this region is world-renowned. Graaff-Reinet, the fourth oldest town in South Africa, is recognized as the home of magnificent examples of Cape Dutch architecture and over 220 heritage sites (more than any other town in South Africa!). Shops such as Shoprite, Spar, Clicks, Fochini, Truworths, Spur, Steers, Wimpy, KFC and various other restaurants, over 200 registered B&B's. Places of interest in the area include Addo National Park, Camdeboo National Park, Fonteinbos Nature Reserve and various Game Reserves, all of them malaria free.
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