Cederberg

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Wine Region

The Cederberg (English Cederberg mountains ) are primarily constructed of sandstone mountain range 200 km north of Cape Town ( South Africa), in the triangle of Clanwilliam, Citrusdal and Wupper valley. The Cedar Mountains are to mountain formation of the Cape Fold Belt.

The mountains are known for their colorful carpets of flowers in spring (August / September ) and their diverse vegetation of plant communities of the Fynbos and the Succulent Karoo, as well as caves with ancient rock drawings of the San Another special feature is the grown almost exclusively in the Cederberg Mountains worldwide Rooibospflanze represents, from which the rooibos ( red bush tea ) is obtained ..

The nature reserve ( Wilderness Area ) of the Cederberg Mountains stretches from Middelburg Mountain Pass at Citrusdal to north of Pakhuis Pass at Clanwilliam and comprises approximately 71,000 hectares. There are sometimes bizarre rock formations (such as the Maltese Cross ). The nature reserve is available as part of the Cape Floral region on the World Heritage list of UNESCO since 2004.