Montague Pass and Prince Alfred Pass

Did a bit of driving around the Garden Route area, taking in Montague Pass. It’s a single track dirt road with vertigo inducing drops that winds high up into the Outeniqua Mountains. We continued for about 70km before we came to the pass that would take us back towards the coast. A sign said ‘road closed’ but after having consulted with a local who’d approached us swaying slightly and rolling his eyes and reliably giving us the thumbs up, we decided to follow his advice and carry on over the pass anyway.

We ended up Knsyia for lunch, where we saw … a man wearing a Celtic top. What’s the world coming to? Eh Frank! Yesterday, Mike (our host in Sedgefield who also used to be the mayor) took us for a look around the local township “Smuttsville”. It’s quite hard to get your head round the contrast in standards of living between the ethnic groups. Mike seemed to know quite a few people there and explained that in the last 10 years things have definitely been improving. It seems odd to us to be relaxing on the beach and boarding one minute and then driving around groups of shacks the next.