Tour to Bela Bela 3 February

This morning Cobus told us how to organise a tour.
First you must check if you got transport then you have to check the oil and water and
see if the wheels are fine.
Check the petrol and see if the air con works tell the tourists that they must make turns by who
is sitting at the window make sure the microphone works.
Give them a quick briefing of were they are going and tell them they must take money or they need to take water ask who is smokers so that you can stop for smoke breaks.
Tell the people what time are you going to be were keep talking to the tourists stop for small
breaks.


Information centre

We arrived at 9:05 they provided us with all the information we needed.
They were very friendly and help full and they gave us pamphlets of places
near bela bela we left at 9:36.

Sondela office

We arrived there at 9:41 the offices is on the 2nd floor then we left at 9:45.

Grave yard

We arrived at 9:45 Christine pretorius is burried there her husband was Andries pretorius
his wife got sick and she stayed there because the thought the warm water will make her better.
She died there she was born in 1800 and died in 1848 its not like other grave yards
this one is open.
We left at 9:50.

African Market

We arrived there at 10:05 the people where very nice an they have allot of wooden carved
animals and allot of bracelets some of them come from Kenya and some of them from Zimbabwe
we left there at 10:20.

Block House

This house was build by the English in the boere oorlog they build it to protect the railway
it has 3 layers an there were bullet marks on the outside it is well build with thick steel plates
that covered the windows.
The house have a balcony and the door is made of steel.

Silo's

We arrived at 10:42 and left at 10:48.
There is 7 big silo's and 4 small ones it is 45m long and can take 36tuns of grane or mielies the company that
runs that is called NTK that is Noord Transvaal Korporasie after that we went trough the township.

Township

There is a shebeen its called B.B.K and on Sundays they play jazz and drink beer there is a high school Bela Bela high an they live very close to each other they are very social people.
We arrived there at 10:51 and left at 11:00.

My comments

It was very interesting and nice to see whats going on in the town.
The Block house was the most interesting.