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3 Weeks South Africa Trip on rented Bike starting from Cap

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I'm shure a lot of people has made it already. Were would you go? Tips? Trip advisors? Don't wanna make more than 5.5tkm.

Thank you guys for any tips!

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Starting in CT is perfect. Both Western Cape and Eastern Cape are beautiful. Depending on whether you prefer dirt roads or tarmac, for both the Hex River Mts. are a good start. Lots of mountain passes all around CT. Get yourslf a road map of SA and check out the passes.

If you'd like to do more dirt roads east of the Ceder Berg there are great pistes, esp. from Ceres to Clanwilliam via Wupperthal on the eastern side of the Ceder Mts. Tankwa NP is brilliant, so are the Swartberg Mts further east in the vicinity of Calitzdorp. Swartberg Pass and Gamka Kloof (De Hel) are perfect dirt road goals, so is the Rooiberg Pass south of Calitzdorp.
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If you going to the eastern cape (my home town area ) there are a few places you should get to if you like gravel and really remote roads. Die Hel and the Baviaans, 7 passes and Prince Alfred, in the southern cape are check list rides. Everyone does them. Much more remote and more technical are:

Katberg pass near Fort Beaufort but I hear they fixed the road a bit in the past year

Spring Valley road from fort beaufort or Adelaide to Tarakstad. Over 100 km of gravel with no one in sight

Zuurberg pass from addo to Cradock. Very rocky and sharp so don't let your tyres down too low. There is a back packers run by a biker at the base of the pass

Cathcart to Hogsback road

You wont see crowds of weekend warrior bikers on these roads, nor the inevitable 4x4 crowd you see on the southern cape routes you mentioned.

Ive got pics of all these roads, including the southern cape ones, but the EC ones win hands down in my opinion.

A word of warning. The clay roads in the eastern cape are extremely slippery when wet, so if it rains, rather wait. It never rains long. the same applies to many of the roads in the Karoo.
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