Drive across the Swartberg pass by Alain_Smeets
This pass is the link between the little and the big Karoo and the drive up there is breath taking.There are lot of sharp turns, but the views are worth it.
We drove through the Meiringspoort and on to the Swartberg Pass. This pass surprised us. We thought about a normal road, but it was a sand road, and mostly so small that only one car can travel on it. Here and there, we saw an opportunity to let other cars pass. But this was not necessary because going up, we didn?t see one car. You can imagine that this took a long time to drive up. But the view on the top was great. That winding sand-road going up. We were glad we did this. But after the top, the road didn?t ended as we thought. It was downhill and then ups again. We saw the first car just behind the first top, one car in more than one hour; it sounds like a very busy road. But a the second top, we saw 2 cars standing with tourists, also taking pictures. And on the way down, we passed more cars. But we still are on a sand road.