View of the fertile green valley of Ceres. Ceres Tourist Information and accommodation . Ceres Breede River Valley Ceres, named after the Roman goddess of fertility, lies in a particularly fertile ditch of the Dwars River valley with high rainfalls and good soil. The valley is surrounded by the steeply rising and hardly accessible Skurve and Witzenberg mountain ranges. Farmers penetrated the area in 1727 already, but only after the opening of the spectacular Michell's Pass Road in the year 1848, the town became accessible and began to flourish.
Ceres is the centre of the South African fruit and fruit juice production.
The Ceres Fruit Juices Co-Operative produces excellent juice for the whole of southern Africa and provides the town with work and prosperity. One can visit the production plants and watch how the juices are being pressed, bottled and packaged. Ceres lies 130 kilometres north of Cape Town and was in the times of the diamond boom in South Africa an important halfwayhouse for the diamond fields in Kimberley. It exhibits a huge collection of horse and ox wagons, as they were used in the time from 1880 until 1940. And documents of the earthquake of 1969 are to be seen, which destroyed numerous buildings in Ceres.