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