So waking up at 4am is never fun but when you have a 14 hour drive in front of you just have to stuck it up and hope no-one talks to you! Lots of stunning scenery and finally getting out of the fog of joburg later, we find ourselves at the start of a road that says "road closed - flood damage" of course we still go down it following a slight;ly insane afrikaans guy who said it should be fine; and Johan not wanting to go the long way round and wanting to show me the views from the prince alfreds pass, thought it should be safe enough! So they weren't kidding with the flood damage warning, the tarmac road had literally be eaten by the river that ran next to it; what was a
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