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- Gravel road on way to Montagu
- Gravel road on way to Montagu
- Bike broken in on gravel now!
- Front view of bike after some dust...
- Definitely dirtier...
- Another front view
- 180+ kilometers of gravel road stretch onwards...
- Passing through one of numerous drifts on our way to Montagu
- Gravel road stretching into the distance.... we passed one vehicle in 180km!
- Mountain pass
- Found this tortoise crossing the road
- Gravel road stretches on another 80km...
- Chantel decided to also give some business to the fruit stall
- Chantel photographing a bug
- Jaco and Arina in the Cederberg
- Jaco and Arina near Dwarsrivier in the Cederberg
- Navigating through the Cederberg...
- Gravel Road
- Gravel road from Cederberg Oasis
- On our way from Cederberg Oasis to Ceres
- Preparing bikes for start of gravel road into Cederberg
- And we're off into the Cederberg
- Riding into the Cederberg Mountains... not ABS etc warning lights on dash
- Gravel road snaking into the distance
- Gravel road twisting and turning through mountains
- Stopping to meet with bikers going opposite direction
- Low bridge
- Getting nice and dirty!
- Shaun deep in discussion
- Frenchman passing through on his bike on his way to Gaansbaai
- Road snaking up the steep pass before Cederberg Oasis
- Descent down towards Cederberg Oasis
- Quick regroup
- Low drift bridge
- Crossing the drift bridge
- Cederberg Oasis sign
- Arriving at Cederberg Oasis
- Passing Matjiesrivier Nature Reserve in the Cederberg
- Gravel road winding through beautiful Cederberg mountains
- Passing a lonesome farm....
- Steep rough bit of road here....
- Passing Stadsaal Caves on a sandy stretch of road
- Really sand bit of road approaching Kromrivier
- Riders view.... just a bit dusty...
- Passing Kromrivier turnoff
- Approaching Dwarsrivier
- Plenty of dust here as stuck behind a car....
- Top of Uitkyk Pass
- Descending Uitkyk Pass... approaching U-bend
- Nieuwoudt's Pass
- Turn off to Citrusdal along the Olifants River
- Site of geocache along Olifants River
- Jaco leading.... riding next to Olifants River towards Citrusdal
- Road quite good here.... managed to touch 110km/h
- Approaching Citrusdal
- Blocked bridge - I had to negotiate a 45 degree decline into the river and up over the rocks on other side
- Driver of 4x4 on far side coming to explain problem to me
- 4x4 Sign... I think this was an understatement! Wonder what the blank sign should have said!
- Seriously steep ascent up Wupperthal Pass (described as Bad Offroad by Tracks4Africa)
- Top of Wupperthal Pass - now soft sand
- Took a fall here in the deep soft sand (my first fall)
- Crossing a drift bridge
- Passing sheep and donkeys
- Passing through farm gates
- Passing through Eselbank (hamlet?)
- Through a river
- Stone road with stunning rock formations
- Another drift bridge
- Gravel and more gravel but road is much better
- First real tree in 40km!
- At the trun off to Kromrivier.... road now very much better
- View from Uitkyk Pass