At the bottom of the Swartberg pass, once into the initial gorge, you twist along and come out at a river where people stop to picnic and swim in the summer. Also just there is a lone standing pinnacle of rock onto which people have written “Jesus” as it forms a sort of natural Read more >
We took some pictures of the place we stayed at since it was dark on arrival and the place couldn’t be seen. It was in an amazing natural setting about 2 minutes out of town. Great comfort and cleanliness considering the price we paid. You felt like you were in the middle of nowhere on a Read more >
We had made the 100km down the gravel road and now it was only about 45 km of tar to reach our destination for the day – Prince Albert. As you reach the end of the gravel there is a lovely Karoo farm stall in Klaarstroom that awaits you with coffee, drinks and all sorts of other goodies to Read more >
Todays pictures speak for themselves really, nothing much to say, other than it’s 100km or an hours riding through this kind of terrain. Remote, beautiful, undulating, easy riding, occasional springbok in the veld on the side of the road, very occasional farmstead, mountains on both sides, Read more >
Charley Boorman is an obsessed travel adventurer who is known around the world for undertaking epic, continent-spanning journeys. With his friend, Ewan McGregor, he has travelled overland by motorbike from London to New York, via Europe and Asia for the award-winning series Long Way Round and Read more >
Having filled the bikes up, we now needed something to eat and drink ourselves. We went up to the Willowmore historic guest house to see if they were open and selling food. We found they were there and open but the kitchen was closed, so we had a look around the place, it’s old pub full of Read more >
We followed the road which in turn was following the river, and we came to a gorge, or “Kloof” as it’s known in these parts, where over time the stream had worn its way through the rock. There were some very interesting shapes in the rock where although now very much as hard as Read more >
From the Valley of Desolation our next destination was to Steytlerville, but via some of the back gravel roads. To get there we first had to pass through Graaff-reinet and on tar down to a small place called Jansenville. From there we did gravel to Steytlerville. As you can see it was rather flat Read more >
On the way back down the mountain we stopped to get more pictures of the orange and yellow flowers. I’m afraid this is one of those times where it just looked much better in real life than these pictures seem to show now. Also when you are immersed in nature and traveling you seem to get Read more >
This is South Africa’s answer to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. Well, sort of. Not in the sea but high up in a set of mountains. These dolorite pillars have remained in tact while everything else softer around it has eroded away, leaving an impressive catherdal like structure 120m Read more >
