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Bitterfontein attractions
Bitterfontein is situated in the Knersvlakte, which forms part of the Succulent Karoo biome, with over a 1000 succulent species. In the smaller villages, where the lifestyle is very rural, you can still see people baking bread in outside clay ovens, driving donkey carts and herding goats in the traditional manner. Various landscapes present themselves, like the Bushmanland with its wide grassy plains and stately quiver trees. To the west there are great granite domes surrounding the picturesque Roman Catholic mission station of Rietpoort. The landscape has gently rolling hills and in spring time (August to September) is transformed with fields of Namaqualand flowers.
Just north of Bitterfontein a green coloured granite, called charnockite, is mined. The village, as well as the surrounding villages, are provided with fresh water by means of a desalination plant, the first in the Southern Hemisphere. Nearby is Van Meerhoff's Cave, an overnight spot of one of the early governors of the Cape Colony, on his expeditions into Namaqualand - it is a National Monument.
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