Not even two hours after leaving Cape Town, before the kids can ask “Are we there yet?”, you’ll find the Jubileeskraal sign 16 km before Swellendam. Here you turn off onto a farm trail and then the blue Langeberg stretches out in front of you as far as the eye can see. Then it’s another 5 km to Kam’Bati, where you pitch camp next to the Breede River and forget about the rest of the world for a few days.
On Jubileeskraal, the Badenhorst family farms with wheat, barley, canola, soy and corn. The original owner was Jacobus Cornelius Badenhorst, better known as Batie. So, when the family added a campsite they called it Kam’Batie – short for camp Batie.
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