Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Day 3 Christiana - Potchefstroom

We left Christiana, met some nice little friends on the sides of the road:

And then we chose the smallest little roads we could find towards Pretoria and followed them. So we turned off N12 into gravel road to town called Schwezer-Reneke.

After this town towards Glaudina we went through some radical corrugations and some of the truck’s electrics came loose. Dashboard needles were dancing like crazy :/// and then the car stopped… we checked all connections to the batteries and dashboard but nothing seemed to be wrong. Then one of the local farmers stopped offering his help. And then another one stopped to help. After an hour all road was blocked - everybody trying to find the problem, one with his tools, another one ringing friends who could come and solve the problem. Not too long after one of the farmers found the problem - one wire connecting to the battery was broken. So that was just a few seconds job to fix it.:))) We had some beers with the guys, listened to their stories about being a farmer in South Africa these days… And knowing that nothing happens without a reason we headed towards Pretoria. Went through village Ottosdal, then down to Klerksdorp and to Potchefstroom which turned out to be very beautiful student town. We camped near dam, did some washing and blogging:


Our dinner was butternut, onion and steak:

And this was our view:

Our camp at night:

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