Into the Langkloof - 255km

Millwood House. Knysna
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Knysna Ferry
Page: 1 KNYSNA
...lies on the banks of a tranquil lagoon, guarded at its mouth by The Heads, and overlooked to the north by the Outeniqua Mountains. Surrounded by lush indigenous forests of yellowwood, stinkwood, Cape beech and red alder, its history is closely linked t ...

King Edward VII Yellow wood tree - estimated to be 650 years old
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...was originally named Terra das Trovoadas (Land of the Thunder) by the Portuguese. The first European to explore the area was a Dutch sergeant, Isaq Schrijver, who travelled along the valley in 1689 and named it Langkloof, meaning ‘long ravine’. Lying p ...