Klein Karoo National Arts Festival

This past week-end, we attended the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival which is an annual Afrikaans language national arts festival. It was the perfect weekend in Oudtshoorn for this annual event. It is a place for various performances such as cabaret, open-air concerts, plays and many more are on show. Professional and amateur artists perform their latest productions to overseas and South African audiences. So, it was very easy to spend our two entire days there. This festival welcomes each year a lot of families including kids of all ages. Oudtshoorn is the principal city of Little Karoo. This region is slightly away from the Garden Route. It has a wealth of beauty and renowned also for its wine. That is the reason people, like us, drank a lot of wine during this festival.

Once we got in, we were handed a program that was really informative and laid out all the events, times and locations in an easy-to-find format. We arrived on Saturday evening, just for the aperitif hour, that we took in a pretty bar where there were a lot of happy people who drank, danced and sang listening to different artists on the stage. I discovered the Afrikaans culture, the Afrikaans music and the different traditions. We walked all around the festival, did shopping, and met good persons… It was a great experience ‼‼‼