South Africa’s oldest hotel which was once an 18th-century toll gate

• The Houw Hoek Hotel, South Africa's oldest licensed hotel, was built in 1779 and has operated continuously since then.
• The hotel was originally an 18th-century toll gate and inn along the wagon route leading towards the eastern interior, and was officially licensed in 1834.
• The hotel has remained in operation for over two and a half centuries, and is recognized as having the oldest liquor licence in South Africa, with a large country hotel set among the mountains of the Western Cape.