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Our Richtersveld trip

The next day we left Potjiespram for De Hoop. You go back the same way as you came in and then at the fork in the road turn left. Although the mountains are bare with almost no vegetation, it is still beautiful. On this route you will find a lot of "Halfmens". They normally grow on the Soutern slopes of the mountains. Apparently you will see more plants and flowers in September.

Halfmens

The worst roads in the park are the graded roads. I think they are there for the mining activities. They are heavily corrugated and it is almost better to travel next to the road. Luckily after Oena the graded road stop and you start on a 2 wheel track which you travelled 1500Km far to get on. This is what you were looking for. After the Oena turn-off you will go through a small mountain pass. At last a small challenge. It is not that steep, even with the trailer we went up and down without any hassles.

Waiting for the traffic to clear before we decent.

You will regulary find these sharp rocks. It seems as if they shattered from the heat.

Sharp rocks from closer. These are the buggers which will ruin the side walls of your tyres. They are rasor sharp.

On the other side of the little pass the area is mostly flat.

In the cool 42 degrees of the days we stopped under one of the five trees for some tea

It is not all bare landscapes. In the river beds are more vegtation. A large number of the roads run in the dry river beds, thus a lot of sand driving.

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