Bloemfontein International airport is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) east of the city. You will find campervan hire to Bloemfontein from campervan hire Cape Town. This agricultural and mining landscape has some fine dams and places of interest to visit and camp at. Locals brag how the stars over Bloemfontein are clearer than those over any other city in the world. The province experienced a gold rush in 1948, after which mines sprang up instantaneously. Entire cities centres were premeditated around the rich gold deposits which are said to be amongst the finest in the gold deposits world .This mineral wealth coupled with the Agricultural wealth made the growth of the region very stable. As you pass on the freeways you will notice farms that seem to stretch to the very horizon. Although theses farm are not very eco-green friendly as they mostly do maize as a mono-crop year after year they are the back bone of the maize industry in South Africa. Maize is the staple for blacks living in South Africa. It was introduced by early white settlers as they set up farms and began growing maize. It is to be noted that when these early pioneers came to the region. there was no real farming to speak of and the blacks that had lived there, who still lived in the primative Iron Age and farming or agriculture was foreign to them.
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