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On the Pilgrim's Rest main road visitors will find an extensive Art Market.
I personally love to wander by this type of markets just to look into the details of the pieces. :)
Click here to see my photo shots of the cool Art pieces that are available for sale at Pilgrim's Rest.
Updated Sep 24, 2006
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Go have a look around the stalls and buildings. Of course, the stall holders want you to buy something but they are not as pushy as some places that we have been to. Don't worry if you do not have enough money because they even have a bank all the way up here in the mountains that has an ATM!
Updated Aug 28, 2006
Website: http://www.pilgrims-rest.co.za/sightsee/index.html#infocentre
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A tour to describe the way the people once lived in the area and the way in which they panned for alluvial gold can be taken.
A fascinating way to discover the way it was.
Written Jan 10, 2008
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Take a slow walk, pop into all the little shops and the museum. Have a drink or lunch on the verandah at the Royal. Buy some freshly baked goodies from the home industry.
Written Dec 27, 2005
Crystal Springs Mountain Lodge
1 Review and 17 Opinions Beautiful place inside the forest. Lodges vary from 4 sleepers to 6 or 8. You can also book into the...
4 Reviews and 21 Opinions Many of the houses in upper Pilgrim's Rest are actually annexes to the Royal Hotel, which boasts a...
1 Review and 13 Opinions If you yearn for the comfort of modern times, and a peek into yesteryear... this is the perfect...
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Take a slow walk, pop into all the little shops and the museum. Have a drink or lunch on the verandah at the Royal. Buy some freshly baked goodies from the home...
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The entire little town has been declared a national monument. From the 1870's onwards it was bustling with people from all over after gold was found there. There are lots of shops (expensive) and...
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There's gold in them there hills....
It all started with a man and a wheelbarrow.... A prospector called Alec Patterson carried all his belongings in wheelbarrow, hence his nickname of "Wheelbarrow" Alec. In 1873, he discovered the...
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Pilgrims Rest was founded in 1873 when gold diggers found alluvial gold in the streams flowing through the valley. There is a rumour that says when Allec Wheelbarrow Patterson, a digger, found the...
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It was when a few insignificant gold deposits were found here, in the Northern parts of South Africa between 1840 and 1870, that the rush to get rich began. By 1873, when gold was discovered on the......
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