DAY 28 - HIGHLAND KAROO
23 July  2004

 

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SOUTHERN AFRICA 2004 


This was a long traveling day, with not too much interesting things to see. However we have taken few photos, which are worth to show here.

Our route was: Hazyview - Johannesburg - Bloemfontein - on the Karoo higland road 'N1'

Karoo Highveld (=highland)  is dominated by the lofty mountains and rolling plains, it is a desert-like landscape, with few towns, villages. We were driving on this day 1350 km (this was our longest driving).

 

  

Long Tom is the name of this cannon, used in the Anglo-Boer wars. This replica stands at the Long Tom pass between Lydenburg and Sabie in the Eastern Transvaal.

'Endless road' ... driving towards Johannesburg

The air was incredibly polluted, in a distance of 100 km before Johannesburg.

Soweto welcomes the visitors. The settlement  - which was constructed during the apartheid -  is inhabited by black people.
The name 'SOWETO' comes from SOuth-WEst TOwnship.

Anti-Aids advertising poster.
'Remember Khabzela.
Remember yourself.
Now your status
Get tested for HIV now.'
Khabzela was a pop-star who suffered od aids, and died on 
15 Jan 2004.

A hill on Karoo highland 

This road on Karoo goes 1200 m high.

The Orange River, South Africa's major river is 2200 km long.

Orange River

 Sunset at Orange river

A Road Lodge with a river terrace at Orange River

The African sky when the sun has gone down

We stayed in a 'bed&breakfast' in Skietkuil Farm.  The entrance gate of the farm motel.