A cold and chilly Oudtshoorn morning found us awake at 07:30, getting ready for breakfast and a meeting with the Executive Mayor, Councillor Diana de Jager at 09:30. After an hour long chat and a nice cup of tea, we left with both the scroll signed and a better idea of the good hearted person fronting the Oudtshoorn Municipality - Councillor Diana de Jager, thank you for your time this morning.

Next stop for the day was one of the 7 wonders of Southern Africa - The Cango Caves. These caves are of an ecological importance as the caverns began forming 20 million years ago and there is evidence of people inhabiting the caves from more than 80 000 years before the caves were "discovered".

Knowing this, we set off to do the adventure tour - 90 minutes through the heart of the Cango Caves, with exciting passages and narrow chimneys. There are impressive limestone formations such as stalagmites, stalactites and completed columns, where a stalagmite and stalactite have met.

This tour had us thrilled as we got to explore the different caverns - the guide occasionally dimming the lighting to give us an idea of what it would have been like for the original explorers!! Between 90- 100% humidity in the caves and a steady temperature of 18 degrees had us all glowing slightly after our adventurous excursion!

Probably one of the most awesome things we have found on this trip...As they say: a true GEM!!! Definitely a double thumbs-up from the 1+1=1 team!!

And of course no trip to Oudtshoorn would be complete without a visit to an Ostrich Farm. Oudtshoorn is the largest town in the Klein Karoo - it became a bustling city in about the 1870's when the feather market was booming in world fashion.

We decided to stop at the Cango Ostrich Farm, where we did a tour of the farm. This tour was awesome. We got to feel an ostrich egg ( which equates to about 24 chicken eggs: now THAT is one big omelette!! ) and even stand on it -to get an idea. f its strength.

Interesting fact: An ostrich egg can bear about 100kg's. Another interesting fact...while the ostrich egg is the LARGEST egg - the bee honey bird has the smallest egg...and you can fit 4700 bee honey bird eggs into ONE ostrich egg! Boggles one's mind, doesn't it!!

The guide then took us to see the ostriches. Betty, a young female...took quite a fancy to Jonathan and "kissed" him as the guide places food in Jonathan's mouth for the ostrich to take. Must say the look on his face was...as Mastercard says... "priceless"!!

We then decided to take the bull by the horns...or should i say the ostrich by the wings...and ride an ostrich. Think Jonathan almost fell over laughing, as I tried to mount and then careened around the arena. Not the most comfortable steed I will admit! But what fun - it was like riding a loose cannon. There is definitely a lot of power under all those feathers!!

An awesome day from our side - lots of fun and adventure...and we know know what makes Oudtshoorn such a place to visit!! Thanks to everyone involved - all our super guides - and of course our new ostrich friends for making our day!!