This is not really a tourist trap but useful to know. Pelgrim's Rest is very expensive. You can buy many of the articles that you find in the shops from the stalls at the waterfalls, Bourke's Luck potholes etc. They are normally half the price that you will pay at Pelgrim's Rest.
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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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This is not really a tourist trap but useful to know. Pelgrim's Rest is very expensive. You can buy many of the articles that you find in the shops from the...
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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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