Picnics at Delta Solms

At the end of the woodland at Solms Delta winery and museum, the Berg River runs over its brown stones in dappled sunshine creating an ideal picnic area. In the glade between the river and the dam. When I visited, Delta can cope with supplying picnics for up to ten parties in the summer months, an ideal spot to relax and unwind with friends and family. 

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Khoisan and Japanese relics

At Delta Solms, when the archaeologists started to dig they found not just the remains of an old building but also relics of a past civilisation dating back to the Late Stone Age. I found it fascinating to imagine how ancient hands had made and worked with the relics. It was all described in the museum’s display cabinets and panels and but what made it more mystic was that I was transported into their world by the haunting voice over of a Khoisan storyteller.

The cabinets also hold Japanese ceramics from the days when the farm was founded in 1690 under the Dutch East India Company, the cheaper Chinese pottery of later British times, mixed with some produced in England and forced on the colonies by the East India Company and the Westminster government’s policy of trade monopoly.

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