Located on the Northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about 160 kilometres South-East of Cape Town and 35 kilometres, North of Cape Agulhas. The Town was named after Michiel van Breda the first mayor of Cape Town, Bredasdorp was established with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church in 1838 on the farm Langefontein. Mayor van Breda is the founder of South Africa’s merino sheep industry which, to this day, forms a large part of the farming community. Bredasdorp was named after its founding father Michiel van Breda who was the first mayor of Cape Town.

This is a land steeped in legends and mysteries, where dramatic desert landscape and weird rock formations easily trigger the imagination and plays with one’s senses. The biological diversity is matched with cultural richness in this World Heritage Site that never fails to enthrall even the most widely traveled visitor.It is a combination of the diverse habitats including sandy plains, deep-cut river Valleys and Mountains and the occasional fog that periodically comes rolling in from the Sea. This phenomenon led to the Region’s tremendous biodiversity.

The "Deutsche Schule Hermannsburg" (or Hermannsburg School) is located in the hamlet of Hermannsburg on the North Eastern fringe of the Natal Midlands between Greytown and Kranskop. The German Private School is the oldest in South Africa and was founded in 1854 by missionaries; of the Hermannsburg Missionary Society in Germany. They built the Mission house (which today houses the Museum). The missionaries soon felt the need to establish a School and within a few years this School was well known throughout the Colony of Natal, attracting many German and non-German scholars.

For hiking purposes, the area stretches from the Royal Natal National Park in the North-East to the Cathedral Peak area in the South-West – it is a vast range commencing on the Southern edge of the Amphitheatre and Devil’s tooth, going around the Valleys from which the Mnweni river spring, across the jutting escarpment which is the source of the Orange (Senqu) River all the way to the Northern side of the jaw-dropping Bell and Cathedral Peak Ridges.