Dec 2021 – Feb 2022

Südafrika Bike Tour

Die neuen Omikron COVID-19-Variante wird im Moment negative mit Südafrika in Verbindung gebracht. Wir machen uns dennoch auf den Weg das Land mit dem Fahrrad zu bereisen. Read more

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- Day 16
- Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 2:01 PM
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 185 m
- South Africa Kouga -33.83833, 24.9466733°50’18” S 24°56’48” E
Swiss Made
December 21, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
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- Day 16
- Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 7:32 PM
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 261 m
- South Africa Lady’s Slipper -33.89833, 25.2533333°53’54” S 25°15’12” E
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Falcon Rock - Day Stop
December 21, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Traveler Funktioniert auch so, oder?🤣
12/21/21Reply
Travelerja schon, aber als wir uns, zum Aufladen unserer Handys einklinkten, hatten wir kein Wasser mehr da die Pumpe keinen Strom mehr hatte 🤨🤔. Aber ja, zum Glück war der Kasten offen damit wir es auch selber wieder flicken konten 🤗
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 9:20 AM
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 81 m
- South Africa Lovemore Park -34.01167, 25.4883334°0’42” S 25°29’18” E
Nice place hidden behind bushes
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 11:02 AM
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 78 m
- South Africa Walmer -33.98333, 25.5866733°58’60” S 25°35’12” E
Entering Port Elizabeth
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 1:48 PM
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 43 m
- South Africa Motherwell 4 -33.82333, 25.61533°49’24” S 25°36’54” E
... but leaving was not as scenic
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 2:28 PM
- 🌧 21 °C
- Altitude: 60 m
- South Africa Coega -33.755, 25.6916733°45’18” S 25°41’30” E
We always find the nicest places 😉
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 3:01 PM
- 🌧 21 °C
- Altitude: 56 m
- South Africa Coega -33.75833, 25.69533°45’30” S 25°41’42” E
Next 16 km on the National Road
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
Nobody could actually tell us if this allowed, forbidden or accepted 🤔

The sign, going on to the National Road to Switzerland for a road were you are not allowed to drive with the bicycle on. But then again, there were no signs indicating the cycling in that road is not allowed 🤔

So we went on and covered the distance to Colchester in no time 😁 and getting into Colchester it was not clear what kind of road we were on since there were road crossings and turnoff's without actually leaving the National Road 🤔🤨Read more
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- Day 17
- Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 4:33 PM
- 🌧 21 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- South Africa Colchester -33.69, 25.8316733°41’24” S 25°49’54” E
Colchester - Day Stop
December 22, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
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- Day 18
- Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 12:04 PM
- 🌧 18 °C
- Altitude: 55 m
- South Africa Addo -33.52333, 25.6916733°31’24” S 25°41’30” E
It's raining
December 23, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
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- Day 18
- Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 12:42 PM
- 🌧 17 °C
- Altitude: 133 m
- South Africa Swanepoelskraal -33.47167, 25.7183333°28’18” S 25°43’6” E
... and now we have a flat tyre
December 23, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
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- Day 18
- Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 1:05 PM
- 🌧 17 °C
- Altitude: 143 m
- South Africa Coerney -33.46, 25.7233°27’36” S 25°43’12” E
Road Construction
December 23, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
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- Day 18
- Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 3:01 PM
- 🌧 14 °C
- Altitude: 590 m
- South Africa Sundays River Valley -33.35167, 25.74533°21’6” S 25°44’42” E
... it really started to rain
December 23, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Cycling up the Zuurbergpas it really started to rain, so we went for a a bit of a shelter under roof of the Lodge.

https://zuurbergmountainvillage.co.za/

Since it did not stop raining, we decided to stay for the night. So we seeped in great rooms and had a extensive dinner 🙃 ... the stomach nearly exploded 😳🤢Read more
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- Day 18
- Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 3:01 PM
- 🌧 17 °C
- Altitude: 590 m
- South Africa Sundays River Valley -33.35167, 25.74533°21’6” S 25°44’42” E
Zuurberg Mountain Village - Day Stop
December 23, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
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- Day 19
- Friday, December 24, 2021 at 7:08 AM
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 590 m
- South Africa Sundays River Valley -33.35167, 25.74533°21’6” S 25°44’42” E
Great view and 🌞
December 24, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
TravelerWir wünschen euch ganz schöne,erholsame und fröhliche Weihnachten 🎄🎄🎉🎊🎁🎁
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- Day 19
- Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:10 AM
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 711 m
- South Africa Beans River -33.31833, 25.7533333°19’6” S 25°45’12” E
View back to the Lodge
December 24, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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- Day 19
- Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:13 AM
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 711 m
- South Africa Beans River -33.31833, 25.7533333°19’6” S 25°45’12” E
Intersection of Gravel Road's
December 24, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
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- Day 19
- Friday, December 24, 2021 at 11:18 AM
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 760 m
- South Africa Beans River -33.28667, 25.7133°17’12” S 25°42’36” E
Some quite rough surfaces
December 24, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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- Day 19
- Friday, December 24, 2021 at 11:45 AM
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 852 m
- South Africa Beans River -33.28167, 25.72533°16’54” S 25°43’30” E
First attempt of Botta to build a church
December 24, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
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- Day 20
- Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 9:07 AM
- ☁️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 560 m
- South Africa Golden Valley -32.80833, 25.7966732°48’30” S 25°47’48” E
Highlights during the day
December 25, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Today, some distance shall be covered so we get closer to Lesotho. The thing on such days is that you look for some 'highlights' along the way that you can look forward to while cycling.

The Highlight for that day was the Town Cookhouse we have identified on the map, located just around 26 km after the start in Middletown.

So we' were looking forward for the sure nice ☕ and 🥧 we would get there. So were quite surprised as we cam along an other nice place just about 10 km before Cookhouse. Our first Highlight!! ... we sure stoped but did not had a ☕, Cookhouse was not fare a way 🙃

Arriving in Cookhouse, we looked for a nice place to get a ☕ but did not find anything else as the Petrolstation, so we grabbed there some ☕.

Somehow we regretted that we did no had the ☕ at the previous place. Not that the ☕ in Cookhouse was not good, but the setting was 'special' and especially the odore from the nearby channel was 🤢😞Read more
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- Day 20
- Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 4:17 PM
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 888 m
- South Africa Cradock -32.16667, 25.6166732°10’0” S 25°37’0” E
Empty Road's & difficult to find a place
December 25, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Reaching Credock, the street's were empty. Okay, it is Christmas Day and that might be the reason for the empty street's but somehow it felt weird.

On the way to the plans Campsite, which is located a bit outside of the town, we passed the tennis court / City Park and there we saw all the persons missing on the streets, there were there doing BBQ or celebrating Christmas Day by other means. And then, at supposed campsite even more people were celebrating Christmas Day, but there was no place for us to camp since the actual Campsite was not existing anymore. So we did find the 'missing' people but we had no place for the night.

So, we cycled back to town and checked at different Hotels and B&B's but none of them had free places or ware just closed on today's Christmas Day. Finally, someone point us to that guest house and the lady did have, luckily, free places.
In order to drop our bags with the food directly in the kitchen, we passed by the kitchen with our bicycle's on the way to the back yardRead more
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- Day 20
- Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 5:51 PM
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 887 m
- South Africa Cradock -32.17167, 25.6232°10’18” S 25°37’12” E
Cradock - Day Stop
December 25, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
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- Day 21
- Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 7:04 AM
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 887 m
- South Africa Cradock -32.17167, 25.6232°10’18” S 25°37’12” E
Breakfast befor we head for Queenstown
December 26, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
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- Day 21
- Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 8:01 AM
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 887 m
- South Africa Cradock -32.17167, 25.6232°10’18” S 25°37’12” E
Leaving Cradock
December 26, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
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- Day 21
- Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 9:26 AM
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 1,189 m
- South Africa Spitskop -32.105, 25.7966732°6’18” S 25°47’48” E
First Peak of the day
December 26, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
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- Day 21
- Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 10:54 AM
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 1,123 m
- South Africa Klipkraal -31.98, 25.9883331°58’48” S 25°59’18” E
First Stop of the day
December 26, 2021 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
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