{"id":27335,"date":"2021-12-14T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelbucket.co.za\/?p=27335"},"modified":"2022-03-20T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T15:42:28","slug":"prince-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelbucket.co.za\/prince-albert\/","title":{"rendered":"PRINCE ALBERT: A GEM BETWEEN HARD ROCKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
by Inge Triegaardt<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Great Karoo with its vast openness and many tumbleweeds, offers beautiful gems in between the hard rocks and dry veld. Prince Albert is certainly one of these diamonds in the making. Prince Albert was established in 1842 with town layout on the De Queekvaleij farm. The farm was granted to Zacharias de Beer as a loan farm and the town was initially called Albertsbrug. It was renamed in 1845 to its current name of prince Albert, after the husband of Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n