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If you understand the place to look and when to go, these mountains will fill you with awe and surprise.
We have been staying in a cottage known as Hoek Sonder Koffee within the Cederberg with some buddies who’d arrived just a few days earlier. It was the spring facet of winter, so there’d been sufficient heat within the days for the vegetation to declare summer time to be on its approach.
The day prior to this the climate had been uncooked and moist, right now it was sunny, the next day it might rain, displaying the realm’s interseasonal mountain character.
We regularly keep in that cottage and have explored the mountain trails and streams for years, inspecting many caves with /Xam rock artwork. It is remoted, rustic and excellent should you’re not fussy concerning the small stuff.
After breakfast we carried a basket of bananas and apples – padkos – to the trusty Nissan X-Path and set off down the monitor previous the dam, now overflowing after years of drought, previous the resident herd of eland and thru two farm gates to the gravel highway.
The gravel took us to the tar which runs previous Traveller’s Relaxation and The Englishman’s Grave in Agter Pakhuis, then on to extra gravel and down a protracted go on the lesser-travelled R364.
Behind us have been the peaks of the excessive Cederberg…
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