Day 61 - Gannabos/Hantam Karoo

Not a great night-over at 'Die Mond' we tackled the road back to the R355. Other than a crazy Ostrich that tried to outrun us at 60km/hour, which then stopped running straight after it crossed over right in front of us🤔What was that all about?

After that and onto the R355 north to the Tankwa National Park, this is all a National Park, except for at least 6 or 7 mad motorcyclists topping over 120km/h on this road throwing up as much dust as us, at a max of 80, not one person to be seen over a distance of 120 kilometers.

Flat, sandy wide open spaces littered with stones from, who knows where? Hundreds of square kilometers of nothing but uninhabited and uninhibited peace.

Trying to make contact with National Parks to make a booking at Tankwa Karoo proved impossible and equal to trying to simply book into the Kruger, back home! Oh wait, I had forgotten, home is right behind us😉

The same R355 cuts off the edge of the Reserve anyway, en route to Calvinia via yet another scary pass… ‘Blouberg Pass’. By now Diesel running scarce too. Here in the Tankwa, nearby means in excess of 200km and more than 3 hours. Arriving into Calvinia (and everybody knows Johny Louw here), it was beautifully clean and totally vacated. Empty streets except for some loitering little boys and the odd piece of washed up 'Seaweed', but at least we could fuel up and after enquiring, everyone told us we were already in the Tankwa Karoo.

That morning before we left, thanks to some other folk, who informed us about a place to stay between Calvinia and Loeriesfontein.

After our arrival at 'Gannabos' way deep into the Hantambergge and we got lost several times. No cell signal, but when we eventually arrived, Merwe our host explained that at my age I should know by now... "Women shouldn't give directions and men don't follow them anyway"!!!

What a beautiful place to stay over. Gannabos, each campsite(of only two) still no signal, no 220v but the basics, Twin-Ply, beautiful bathroom and scullary, hot shower and that's it!!! Except to say the owners of this farm Merwe and Nakkie(Liezl) are such fantastic people and that makes a huge difference, especially when you dont even like people!

Although we really enjoyed the Tankwa-Karoo for its 'nothingness', the Hantam-Karoo Region has even another dimension. It might have had more rain but it as stunningly beautiful with plant growth hiding most of the rocks.

Well earned, we pitched camp right next to our own, very fashionably appointed bathroom and scullary.

As per usual not without a braai, a few of the very best and a shower, we turned in, on a very warm end to Sunday.

Love, Peace and Light
M&K
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