Of all the many road trips our travel editor has done, the drive to Sabie remains his favourite. Here's what to see and do along the way
The other was the road trip, which began in Melville early on a Friday as we bunked lectures, piled into a Ford Escort and headed east to Lydenburg and over the Long Tom Pass over the Drakensberg to Sabie.
Thirty years later, the smell of Sabie - pine plantations and sawn wood - and the fiery glow of the sawdust burner at the mill as we rolled into town at dusk are still stamped on my heart.So my girl and I added some refinements. One: there would be no rushing over the mountain in a fit of"get-there-itis", that urge to make the drive as short as possible. Instead, we would dawdle eastwards and stop to explore whatever roadside attractions took our fancy.
Now the road begins to undulate, rising up and over the hills. The mountains are coming. We stop at the Belfast Wimpy for breakfast and coffee. Then it's down the hill to Waterval Boven and its graceful arched railway bridge. We ponder stopping to see our friends who run a rock-climbing business in town but the rocks are slick with rain and we press on.
A brief pause to drop our bags at the suitably road-trip-retro Fortis Hotel Malaga and then it's on to Kaapsehoop, a place of spooky rocks and wild horses.Kaapsehoop is an old forestry village, parked in time. Pine plantations press in on all sides, and it is often blanketed in mist, making ghosts of the people and horses.
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