We drove to Graskop today on the way to Elephant Plains Game Lodge. It wasn’t an extremely long drive but it was about 250kms or so on some of the straightest roads. But then there were some that were a bit windy and up and down too.
The most amazing thing was the size of some of the potholes and not the potholes that we were going to see tomorrow! you could loose a car down some of them and if not the car the front suspension.
Along the road we stopped at a place called Millie’s. It was just a little place that you could stop and refuel the car and yourself. It was a nice place. A little lake / dam by the side of the road with some carp in it. It should have had trout too but I didn’t see any swim past. We had some lunch there being of trout that should have been from the lake / dam and it wasn’t too bad at all. Nicely smoked.
After that, back on the road to Graskop where we staying for the night. The drive beyond here got a little more interesting with more bends in the road and some long climbs and descents. Would be the place to practice your hill climbing on the push bike let me tell you. On one hill we got behind a truck that was going down the hill. It’s brakes were smoking and I mean that literally. we got past it but it would surprise me at all if his brakes failed or that caught on fire they were that bad.
Arrived in Graskop mid afternnon so we had a quick afternoon nibble at Harry’s Pancakes and then went for a drive to “God’s Window”. When we got there the security guy said that the area was closed BUT if we gave him some money he would let us in and look after our car while we looked around. We decided against this as it was just promoting what South Africa is trying to get rid of. So we went on a little further and just took some pictures of the scenery from the side of the road then headed back to Graskop.
We had dinner at a restaurant across for the hotel we stayed at. It specialized in Mozambican cuisine. It was a nice dinner too. we had a seafood platter between us and that was nice with some very nice flavours.
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