Looking back on the January trip with the KLR

 

Day 1: Short lunch break in Swartruggens. The old station is coverted into a restaurant. Worth visiting. It was raining.

 

Groot Marico: The town of Herman Charles Bosman, and mampoer. Yes, it was still raining.

 

Herman Charles Bosman

 

On the long way to Kang, Botswana. We had to stop often to put on our rain suits.

 

In pouring rain we arrived in Kang and spent the night in a small wooden chalet on the wet camping site.

 

The muddy face of the KLR

 

In Gobabis we preferred a dry night and selected a BnB. Diana, the owner, originates from Russia and speaks an excellent Afrikaans.

 

On the way south to Keetmanshoop. Sunshine and rain, rain suits and wet riding clothes became the pattern of the day's riding.

 

The long road south.

 

I pitched my tent outside the backpackers room at the Schuetzenverein in Keetmanshoop. The earrings on the handle bar of the KLR are my wet socks.

 

Our only hot, hot day: Keetmanshoop to Upington.

 

Prieska: At this coffee shop you get the best omelette in South Africa. Ok, I know, it is a bit exaggerated. It is a wonderful, delicious omelette.

 

On that wonderful gravel road with mud and stones and flat gravel, a dream for the KLR.

 

Orania = innovative. The beginning of a straw house. On completion one would not imagine that the walls of the house straw filled is.It isolates very well for the extreme seasons there.

 

Using sunshine to cook. Sunshine is for free (if it is not raining :-)

 

Go and visit the museum. It is part of our history.

 

On a hill overlooking the town.

 

Children walking, cycling and playing. As it should be.

 

On the stoep with coffee and koeksisters.

 

To encourage shopping in-town an own currency was created, called the Ora. If one pays with Ora one pays about 5% less than the Rand price. On the left the "Kleine Reus" (small giant) of Orania.

 

The koeksister monument.

 

Crossing the Orange River into the Free State.
 

There could be only one town with a coffee pot and cup and saucer at the entrance of the town: Koffiefontein.

 

Flooding forced us to change route after roads and bridges were flooded.