Our Richtersveld trip

After Alexander Bay you will travel on a fairly good gravel road all the way to Sendelingsdrift. There are fuel pumps available, so we filled up just for incase. After we booked in and started moving out to Potjiespram, our 10 year old commented "This does not actually look like a holiday place". The first part of the park is a mine. Ugly and worst of all you drive on a graded road for the first 4 Km. These people make a joke of the word "conservation". So after 4Km of badly corrugated road we turn left towards Potjiespram and things started to look better. WARNING: Do not be mislead by the surrounding towns' temperatures. It was 30 on Port Nolloth, 32 in Alexander Bay and only 45 Degrees Celsius in the Richtersveld park.

The Potjiespram camping site is next to the river. The safest place to swim is if you drive back from where you came from until you reach the bend where you will turn left to go out of Potjiespram. There on the right hand side is a nice hole where you can swim.

The orange river was very full after the rains. The current was flowing very strong and one could only swim on the side.

The mountain next to the river.

Ablution facilities at potjiespram

Swimming at Potjiespram

previous | next | start