- Packed and reday to depart... panniers expanded to take all the luggage
- Chantel by the old fort at Montagu and the tunnel through the rock
- Danie at the old fort outside Montagu
- Filling up at Barrydale
- Chantel at the Country Pumpkin in Barrydale.... very biker griendly and the owner Derek came over to chat to us... we also enjoyed a live singing performance by a passing church choir who stopped there briefly
- Arrival in Ladismith
- Die Withuisie outside Ladismith where we spent our first night
- Chantel out taking photos on our first evening
- A full moon on night one of our trip... so bright that it cast shadows and we took a moonlit walk up to the farm dam
- Looking very clean on day one
- Entrance to Die Wihuisie at Ladismith
- Sunset in the vineyard at Ladismith
- Die Withuisie set in the vineyards outside Ladismith
- Full moon outside Ladismith
- Inside Die Withuisie where we stayed on day one
- Die Withuisie before restoration
- Die Withuisie before restoration
- Kitchen inside Die Withuisie
- Bathroom inside Die Withuisie
- Inside Die Withuisie
- Us outside Die Withuisie... ready for day two
- Church in Ladismith
- Beautiful house in Ladismith
- Church in Ladismith
- Church in Ladismith
- Private collection in Ladismith
- Private collection in Ladismith
- View down Huisrivier Pass... lots of roadworks on the pass
- Us on Route 62 on our way to Oudtshoorn
- View along Route 62
- Plant life along Route 62
- We stopped for Chantel to take this tortoise across the road...
- Closer view of the grateful tortoise
- Closer view of Route 62
- Having lunch at Nostalgie in Oudtshoorn
- Having lunch at Nostalgie in Oudtshoorn
- Brunch at Nostalgie in Oudtshoorn
- House in Oudtshoorn
- Filling up in Oudtshoorn with Trunell's Supermarket in the background
- Raining and low cloud over Swartberg Pass past Oudtshoorn... visibility eventually dropped to 20 metres and we had to crawl along
- Finding the geocache on the way up Swartberg Pass
- Just turned off onto road into Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) and visibility a bit better
- Sign: Dangerous road ahead for 48km Use at own Risk!
- Better part of the road into Die Hel... still reasonably dry so no slippery clay
- Chantel's gloves giving off die
- Road towards Die Hel
- Final descent into Die Hel... you can see the trecherous turns and steep winding narrow road
- Narrow road for the final descent
- Entrance to Nature Reserve and Gamkaskloof Valley known as The Hell
- Stappies Cordier House where we stayed in The Hell
- Bathroom with disabled facilities
- View out of the bathroom
- Solar power for the houses in the Nature Reserve
- Stappies Cordier House History
- Going for a walk along The Hell Valley
- Sign that greets you before reaching the shop
- Old abandoned car
- Old abandoned car
- Entrance to the shop
- Restaurant and shop in The Hell
- Old car
- Another view of the restaurant and shop
- Remains of an old ox wagon
- Old ox wagon
- More solar panels
- Old machinery
- McCormick-Deering
- Peacock
- Road to Hell....
- Pietjie and Hester Swanepoel's House
- Donkey's used for the 4 day trail
- Oupa Piet Mostert's House
- Entrance to caravan stands
- Caravan Hettie for accommodation.... aparently towed in with a 4x4
- Ablution block for caravan stands
- Typical empty caravan stand... very neat and tidy
- Old cast iron poles for phone lines
- Close up view of old GPO phone pole from 1950's
- Us in The Hell
- Road through The Hell