(please refer the map on the previous post)

Just short of 2km after the campsite, the road crosses a bridge and enters Montagu. 1km beyond the bridge, turn left into Barry Street, then turn right into Badstraat (the information office is on your right after 100m; a number of establishments in the town serve lunch). Continue on Badstraat for roughly 3,5 km, then turn left at the ‘hot springs’ sign, and immediately turn right into Uitvlugt Street.

There is an attractive 2,5km ‘lover’s walk’ from the springs along Badkloof to an old mill (’Eyssenhuis’). While some members of the party walk, one person can drive the car around to meet them — drive back along Badstraat, right into Barry Street, left into Meulstraat, past a suspension footbridge over the river, then right into Tanner Street. The road ends at the old mill.

If it is springtime, visit the Centenary Nature Garden — turn from Badstraat into Kerkstraat, cross Langstraat (the through-road) and turn left into Van Riebeeck Street. The entrance to the garden is on your right 700m from the turn.

Montagu to Swellendam

Drive east out of Montagu on Langstraat and follow this road (R62) towards Barrydale.

There is a shady riverside picnic site on the left after about 29 km, and another just over 7km later, roughly 4km up the Wildehondskloof Pass.

On the outskirts of Barrydale, turn right onto the R324 for the Tradouw Pass — noting your kms as you turn. 4,6 km from the turn, stop at a large picnic site set back from the road, next to a small stream that flows under the road. There are braai places here, and on the far bank of the stream a steep path leads up to a rock shelter containing San paintings. (Some of the paintings have been damaged, but a few remain in good condition.)

About 4km beyond this picnic site, two loops of the old road can be seen on your left. There are braai sites here near the water. Roughly 3 km after the summit of the pass the road crosses the Andries Uys bridge. To your left you can see the old Letty’s Bridge.

At the T-junction at the end of the pass, turn right. 4km later the road enters the straggling mission village of Suurbraak, which stretches along the roadside for the next 2,1 km.

A further 2,1 km after leaving Suurbraak, on your right, is the entrance to the farm Rooi poort. 400m beyond, also on your right, is a small cement campanile set in a field about 10 m from the roadside. A plaque records that this was the site of an outpost established in 1734 by the Dutch East India Company as a protection against marauding Khoikhoi and San. The fort itself was close to the solitary house in the middle distance as you look directly past the campanile towards the mountain.

Roughly 5 km beyond the campanile, turn right at the T-junction onto the N2