Miles
Pack Dog
Well the trip was done without incident, Friday afternoon myself, Niekie and Willie (NieKie's son 10 years old) rode to Tuli's farm (Vark Boer) 50km from Bethlehem. We were welcomed by Tuli, Carene and DeonDJ .
HentiBM arrived with his wife (DeonDJ had to leave for his son's birthday) we had a great night again with Carene's cooking, but the "Braai'er" was done by Niekie this time, so Tuli you now have a braai team. Tuli's place is well equiped and a good stopover place for adventure riders.
Saturday morning we left at 7am for Fouriesburg border post.
At the Lesotho side of the border we have the same difficult "cow" that gave us problems on the FS Bash, we wasted almost 1 hour trying to get through, but eventually we got on our way without stamping Niekie's passport (long story)
past Moteng pass and Afriski.
Past the Diamond Mine, the road here is tar but the worst I have seen, at some stages we only managed 20km/h, we stoped in Mokhotlong to put on our rain gear as the heavens opened on us.
Then the dirt section started, lekker at last. saw quite a few bikes along this route.
Then it was up and over Black Mountain in the rain and the temperature had now dropped to 2deg. on my bike computer.
We arrived at Sani Top at 2-30pm and went straight into the Pub to warm up, it was raining hard outside.
After some coffe and a good meal, (Service was very good and fast) we prepaired ouselves mentally for the ride down a wet pass, mommmy!!
We all made it to the bottom without incident, but wow "what a rush"
We then rode through Underberg to our accommodation for the night 17km from underburg is the guest farm called Stoneyhall run by Ivan and Santie Perkins which was fantastic and we will be back, contact them at 082 721 4551.
Distance for the day was over 400km and we arrived in the dark.
On Sunday we went exploring up to Bulwer then right off onto the dirt did a big loop, past Arai Pass back down to Richmond.
Tuli used most of the stops to take photo's enjoy the views and support his small smoking habit.
In Richmond the rain came down in buckets so we spent time at the local KFC having lunch and waiting for the rain to move on, the music was terrible so we moved on, started our ride up Helle Hella Pass.
Then back to the same farm, a great place to have our base and explore the area, distance for the day 295km. We will all be back here again one day. Well recommended to all WD's.
Monday we packed said goodbuy and rode to Mooiriver, but went the long way round past Lotteni also well recommeded easy ride and very senic, saw Sani from the distance "Wow we did that??".
We rode through the kamberg reserve and on to Mooiriver, this trip took 3 hours but was great, after some lunch in Mooiriver we joined the N3 and headed for home.
One of my first long trips and won't be my last, we all enjoyed the whole weekend, it was fantastic.
Trusting all this comes out well.
HentiBM arrived with his wife (DeonDJ had to leave for his son's birthday) we had a great night again with Carene's cooking, but the "Braai'er" was done by Niekie this time, so Tuli you now have a braai team. Tuli's place is well equiped and a good stopover place for adventure riders.
Saturday morning we left at 7am for Fouriesburg border post.
At the Lesotho side of the border we have the same difficult "cow" that gave us problems on the FS Bash, we wasted almost 1 hour trying to get through, but eventually we got on our way without stamping Niekie's passport (long story)
past Moteng pass and Afriski.
Past the Diamond Mine, the road here is tar but the worst I have seen, at some stages we only managed 20km/h, we stoped in Mokhotlong to put on our rain gear as the heavens opened on us.
Then the dirt section started, lekker at last. saw quite a few bikes along this route.
Then it was up and over Black Mountain in the rain and the temperature had now dropped to 2deg. on my bike computer.
We arrived at Sani Top at 2-30pm and went straight into the Pub to warm up, it was raining hard outside.
After some coffe and a good meal, (Service was very good and fast) we prepaired ouselves mentally for the ride down a wet pass, mommmy!!
We all made it to the bottom without incident, but wow "what a rush"
We then rode through Underberg to our accommodation for the night 17km from underburg is the guest farm called Stoneyhall run by Ivan and Santie Perkins which was fantastic and we will be back, contact them at 082 721 4551.
Distance for the day was over 400km and we arrived in the dark.
On Sunday we went exploring up to Bulwer then right off onto the dirt did a big loop, past Arai Pass back down to Richmond.
Tuli used most of the stops to take photo's enjoy the views and support his small smoking habit.
In Richmond the rain came down in buckets so we spent time at the local KFC having lunch and waiting for the rain to move on, the music was terrible so we moved on, started our ride up Helle Hella Pass.
Then back to the same farm, a great place to have our base and explore the area, distance for the day 295km. We will all be back here again one day. Well recommended to all WD's.
Monday we packed said goodbuy and rode to Mooiriver, but went the long way round past Lotteni also well recommeded easy ride and very senic, saw Sani from the distance "Wow we did that??".
We rode through the kamberg reserve and on to Mooiriver, this trip took 3 hours but was great, after some lunch in Mooiriver we joined the N3 and headed for home.
One of my first long trips and won't be my last, we all enjoyed the whole weekend, it was fantastic.
Trusting all this comes out well.
