When booking your holiday to South Africa, be sure to ask the travel agents or hotels if they know of any of the beaten track places to explore.

Once you have seen the more "touristy" places ask at one of the local info centers or travel agents about a route map to the smaller towns or locals call them "Dorp". You will be pleasantly surprised at how many of the quaint towns have equally quaint and sometimes rustic hotels.

Many of these smaller towns have the look of being in a time warp and it is a good idea to ask the nearest information center for a street map.

Take a small place such as Bredasdorp for instance, even this little farming community has a statue of a Merino sheep to give you an idea of the mentality of this aid back neighbourhood.

The shipwreck museum is worth a visit. It is easy to find the old Cape Dutch cottage next to it is the rather daunting Dutch Reform Church.

These Calvinistic monument type churches are scattered across South Africa in small “dorps” where early Afrikaans Quakers stayed.
The museum itself is very informative, with information on how unscrupulous land pirates lured ships with burning signal fires onto the craggy shoreline.

The other attraction worth visiting, is the Cape Agulhas lighthouse. This like the one at Dangerpoint is the sentinels that alert ships and sailors alike of the unforgiving rugged coastline.