As said… we left Monk’s Cowl in quite overcast conditions which luckily cleared mid morning when we passed through bright and yellow fields. We took a short break at the Sterkfontein Dam, peaceful and azure in the sunshine. We arrived in Harrismith, did some shopping and went in search of a truck stop to park …
The challenging and partially scary Sani Pass done and dusted, we turned north-north east towards the next part of the Drakensberg. We skirted the south side of the Maloti Drakensberg Park with its beautiful vistas over mountain ranges and sparkling green valleys dotted with trees dressed up in their autumn best. Although we forgot to …
After our month at the various beaches of the Kwazulu Natal north coast (part 1,2,3,4) , it was time to head inland, towards Sani Pass and the Drakensberg. We had done the Sani Pass a few years ago with the Jeep and it had always been on the bucket list to do it with our …
Just south of Mtubatuba and St Lucia lies Richards Bay, the deepest natural harbour of Africa. Stefaan had read something about a Pelican Island so… off we went. We put it into the GPS and eventually arrived at a very narrow, dented and uneven pier-like road, with sloping breaker rocks and then sea on both …
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Our trip from Sodwana to St lucia took us via Hluhluwe, where we made a quick stop to do some shopping. As we packed everything away in the truck and were preparing to get on the road again we saw an iconic ‘mielie lady’ walking past our truck. Anyone in South Africa knows the Madam …
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When we left the Kosi Bay Lake system we drove to Mabibi Beach Camp: a very nice drive through the iSimangaliso coastal reserve. The first part took us through great expanses of forest plantations but the last part was coastal forest again, which implies shorter trees and bushes encroaching on the narrow, sandy road. With …
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A few years ago we had done a weekend road trip to Kosi Bay and we liked it so much it had been on our bucket list to do with Trokkie. Leaving the endless pine and eucalyptus forests of Mpumalanga behind and skirting Swaziland on the south side, we soon enough hit the sugar cane …
Seeing we still had to sort out some administrative stuff for the truck, we left the Belville workshop in the last week of October, sorted out (part of) our stuff near Somerset West and headed towards the Whale Coast. Leaving Gordon’s Bay towards Betties Bay, we saw a lonely dolphin in the bay below, but …
After our visit to the Gannabos quiver tree forest and a night around the fire at a nearby bush camp we headed back south in the direction of Wupperthal and the Cederberg Mountains. We made a short stop in town (Niewoudtville) where we just missed a 15 minute performance of the Rooibos Riel Dansers but …
Another trip to Kwazulu Natal, saw us going south to see the Red Desert, the Mpenjati Nature Reserve and the Oribi Gorge. Day 1 A drive of just under 2 hours brought us to Port Edward, location of the iconic Red Desert: the world’s smallest desert. This little desert lies just west of the town …