Tankwa Karoo (R355) and its dusty magnificence S1EP45

We are leaving Calvinia in the Northern Cape on a frosty morning, it has been below zero during the night and we make a chilling start to the day. A quick visit to the largest postbox in South Africa before we go onto the R355, the longest uninterrupted gravel road in South Africa. 200KM of nothing but beautiful Karoo landscapes, wide open spaces and a very varied gravel road. Luckily both the KTM 390 Adventure and the KTM 890 Adventure R have enough fuel, because there will be no fuel stops today! The road is also notorious for punctures and we don't carry spares, but nothing can beat the feeling of the open road. We end up at the Tankwa Padstal, without a campground in sight. We camp that night next to the Padstal with a million stars above us!
When we reached the Padstal it feels like we rode onto Area 51 where a UFO crash landed and a car also met its end with a nose dive!
This landscape is truely beautiful as is its people, we filled our hunger with amazing food at the Padstal, set up camp for the evening and felt like we where on Mars that evening.

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