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General => About South Africa... => Interesting Places => Topic started by: Mother on August 12, 2009, 05:21:13 pm

Title: Riemvasmaak
Post by: Mother on August 12, 2009, 05:21:13 pm

hi folks if you travelling around Augrabies and Kakemas...we came across this place by chance from meeting the lady at the Pink pad stal in Kakemas...enroute to Namibia from Gauteng...called Riemvasmaak was an old military base pre 1994 and one of the first reclaimed areas in the new SA...it is still rustic there is running water and toilets...no shop so take your own stuff...beautiful setting in the gorge with hot spring..and not many folk hang out there...we where the only ones for the night and there are gravel roads in and out take the scenic 4x4 route via the orange river...highly recommend this spot

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Post by: malgat (RIP) on August 12, 2009, 05:26:34 pm

dammm,,,that looks nice

i bet the screaming of the silence is ear shattering

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Post by: Runner on August 13, 2009, 08:15:42 pm

Quote from: Mother on August 12, 2009, 05:21:13 pm

hi folks if you travelling around Augrabies and Kakemas...we came across this place by chance from meeting the lady at the Pink pad stal in Kakemas...enroute to Namibia from Gauteng...called Riemvasmaak was an old military base pre 1994 and one of the first reclaimed areas in the new SA...it is still rustic there is running water and toilets...no shop so take your own stuff...beautiful setting in the gorge with hot spring..and not many folk hang out there...we where the only ones for the night and there are gravel roads in and out take the scenic 4x4 route via the orange river...highly recommend this spot

No Jack in the picture ???

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Post by: Pistonpete on August 13, 2009, 08:19:11 pm

Did 7 months of special training there in 81'. Tough place!
We went up there before Christmas last year  :)

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Post by: Bakkie on August 13, 2009, 08:26:40 pm

damn looks nice.. you got more pics?

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Post by: serf on August 13, 2009, 08:29:09 pm

I also did some military training there - hot in summer and freezing in winter!

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Post by: Mother on August 13, 2009, 09:53:45 pm

sorry no more pics took lots of video

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Post by: Aicorner on August 14, 2009, 06:31:43 am

Also trained there - awesome place but serious afkak