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Graaff-Reinet also has plenty of the surreal and fun quirks that characterise the Karoo.
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Translux and Intercape buses connect Graaff-Reinet with Cape Town, roughly 700km southwest, and Johannesburg, 800km northeast.
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The anti-apartheid struggle hero, founder of political party the Pan Africanist Congress, was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1924.
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In Graaff-Reinet, historical accommodation options include Camdeboo Cottages, comprising nine 19th-century cottages with original yellowwood floors and reed ceilings alongside modern amenities.
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Avis offers car rental at the aforementioned airports and in Graaff-Reinet.
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Located 55km north of Graaff-Reinet along a gravel road through the Sneeuberg (Snow Mountains), the remote village of Nieu Bethesda has a spring-fed network of irrigation channels, giving it the appearance of a green oasis.
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Founded by Dr Anton Rupert, a tobacco billionaire, conservationist and critic of apartheid who was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1916, the museum is housed in a beautifully restored early 19th-century mission church, with mostly expressionistic and abstract canvases by South African artists, including Irma Stern and Maud Sumner.
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