Karoo - Day6 Leg5 - Steep climb

Do you know, that looking at the photos now, compared to the feel you get when you are actually riding or standing there is just so different. Riding Swartberg pass is probably one of my most favourite passes in the world (certainly South Africa) and I have ridden many. Why you ask? Well it's the sheer distance you ride which makes it awesome - you don't get to feel that distance and spread in these pictures. Also the change of scenery from the low close steep mountain sides to the open high up twisty roads, the views, the multiple tops you reach, then the de/ascent down over a green valley on the other side from which you can even see forever. There is even a VERY rustic coffee shop near the top somewhere! more on that later.

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The road looks like a castle on the hill