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Secrets and lives behind the great doors of the old Garob

Secrets and lives behind the great doors of the old Garob
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Seven places to spot wildflowers in bloom in South Africa

Oasis on SA s Death to Tyres Road

The road is famous for its treacherous terrain, earning it the moniker "Death to Tyres" due to its sharp shale and corrugation.

Adrift in a sea-washed Karoo of succulent and Sperrgebi

We think of the Karoo as koppie-punctuated Platteland and endless scrubby veld. But there’s a vast swathe of it that hugs the coastline. It even stretches well into the Sperrgebiet and the arid strangeness of southern Namibia. The Karoo I called home. My birthright Karoo.

Oom Bulletjies, the troubadour and the man in the gabar

  Kathy, I’m lost, Paul said, though he knew she was sleeping. I’m heavy and aching and I don’t know why we’re not counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike. Where are we now? This wasn’t in my song. (If you don’t get the above reference, you’ll need to listen to .) If they all came to look for the Karoo, what would they see; if Paul and Kathy on the Greyhound came from Saginaw via the New Jersey turnpike during their 1964 road trip, or if a spy in a gabardine suit pitched up at the coach station in Johannesburg or Cape Town and asked for a one-way ticket to Nowheresville RSA, and landed up somewhere in the deep Karoo, South Africa, 2021; would they understand what they saw, or would they be as lost as Paul Simon was on that bus…

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