Baviaanskloof

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Karoo
National Park
South Africa
Beaufort West

(see next after this
coffee break)
Inside the Karoo National Park
with partially bad road conditions
on side routes
The Karoo Park is getting more interesting on the small roads
The landscape didn't substantially change for hundred of millions of years
The hartebeest is called "harte" deer because in Africaans 'harte' means heart. The horn forms a heart. Look at it.
Time is relative. Time is endless in the Karoo.
The oldest granite is from 4 billion years ago.

"The land will never change.
      If you change the land,
            it will turn on you."

    Australian saying from an
    Aborigine Elder
The Bradysaurus is the oldest reptile, which lived 265 million years ago

It belonged to the therapsida, which were the ancestors of us, the mammals
Earth, water, sun and the sky with the distinctive smell of the land with its vegetation - makes you small and reverential

The Baviaans Kloof Nature Reserve is an area of pure nature close to Port Elizabeth, which is not very known to travellers and visitors to the Garden Route.

It's worth a visit because of the untouched landscape, the road adventure and the unspoiled culture of Eastern Cape farming.

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Kloof is Africaans and means gorge. "oo" is not spoken like an "u", but like "ua". Baviaans is a baboon. So the Baviaans Kloof is the gorge where the baboons live.

Drankwinkel

A drankwinkel is a shop mostly for alcoholic drinks or as it said "drank". A "winkel" is the word for a shop in Africaans.