Accidental adventurers in the Cederberg
After the hamlet of Eselbank, the road throws up genuinely challenging obstacles for a crossover
“Dit is nie meer Gauteng nie, meneer,” said the man driving the first Hilux, referring to the GP licence plate affixed to the front of our car. He was right; we were about as far away from the big city as you can imagine, somewhere high in the Cederberg. And, in any case, I needed no help understanding that we had pushed the boundaries of sensible decision-making. To channel Withnail’s dawning horror from Withnail and I, we had gone on an adventure by mistake.
It’s all a bit cringeworthy. We had loaded the kids into a borrowed Ford Territory and gone to stay at De Pakhuys. We thought we might take the long way home and agreed to meet up with some friends at Sanddrif in the southern Cederberg. Like a typical city slicker, I whacked it into Google maps on Apple CarPlay in the Ford and thought very little about it...
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