Swellendam annual Canola Festival

Swellendam goes yellow!


The Festival of Yellow will be celebrated every year in collaboration with B-Well Foods, where the beauty of our Canola fields will be showcased. Find out more about The Festival of Yellow.

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The Cape Overberg is truly one of the most beautiful landscapes South Africa has to offer, with its rolling hills, orchards, grain fields and vast mountain ranges. In August the Overberg gets that much more beautiful as the landscape is transformed by the seemingly endless yellow vistas of the flowering canola fields.  

The picturesque town of Swellendam hosts an annual festival in honour of the canary coloured landscape, where people can revel in outdoor activities till their heart's content. This annual festival features a mountain bike race, a marathon and fun run, golfing, 4x4ing, live music, a farmers’ market, on stage productions, a rubber duck boat race (not the type you put in the bath), kiddie’s events and a food and wine expo. Now that’s a whole bunch of outdoor activity in the western cape!

For more information see the website below.

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Venue: Drostdy Museum Complex and all-over Swellendam
Location: Swellendam
Website: www.canolakarnaval.co.za
Price: R100
Date:  5-6 August
Time:  Various

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