ISOLATED in the Mountains: Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) via Swartberg Pass | "Best of the West", pt.1
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- A New Series begins as we hit the road en route to a completely isolated community, "Die Hel", and explore some incredible mountain passes along the way!
0:00 - Series Introduction
2:56 - Meiringspoort
5:43 - Swartberg Pass
9:40 - The "Road to Die Hel"
14:01 - Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) and Elands Pass
17:32 - Finding Camp
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South Africa 🇿🇦 is a very beautiful country
This is fantastic. Finally a local promoting our beautiful Western Cape. Also, something to share with friends and family overseas. We are very privileged. I'm glad that I "stumbled" across your RUclips channel. Thank you.
I love this. Thank you for sharing this Durbanite the West in detail. I'm physically disabled and I highly appreciate videos like this.
Happy Birthday Matt! and wish you many more. Thank you for all these amazing videos.:) Looking forward to watching many more. Greetings from Germany:)
So much memories! Thankyou!!! Now I am alone, my husband passed 8yrs. God bless
How wonderful to be able to see that far and remote place, when one does not have the means to actually travel out there. I've heard so much about the place. Thank you so much for taking us on a "couch travel" to also enjoy it. Please do more such travels.
I was at Oudtshoorn in the army in 1974. We explored the area weekend after weekend. This video recalled so many good memories that will stay with me until my death
And now I am living in Australia but SA will stay my country.
Would love to explore that area. I’m from PMB now living in Sydney
Hey Johan...
You lucky fish you...
I was also in the army in '74, short while at Oudshoorn, but the only "exploring" we've been doing weekend after weekend was full kit afkakke in the Swartberg.
But yes, I'm fortunate to still stay in RSA, and do travel those areas when I can.
Our country is so vast, and so much to see, that it will take a lifetime to do everything in a person's travel bucket list...
Must be tough staying in Aus, and still say SA is your country...
I moved down from Pretoria to the Western Cape, still calling myself a Blue Bull after 45 years, and getting lip frequently...
Hope you still support the Bokke... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Matt where ever you are from, you did not grew up in the Karoo. Imagine: 4X4, combat vehicle tyres, letting down the tyre pressure. Sorry that I laughed at you but we've been over the Swartbergpas in a 1961 Zephyr-6: 3 gears forward and reverse. Easy goings. What would you have done if a car came from the opposite side? No, I won't tell you. Educate yourself. The nicest fruit you can but only dream of came from The Hell, grapes. Pears and the best ever peaches: Rlberta's. There were still people living there when we were there.
Well thank you for having taken me back to my childhood years. It was good to tears to see it again.
In 1963 did this with my parents in our Opel. Never forgotten that holiday
just love it. Well done. I am going there next week and looking forward to nature and adventure. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks to share those beautiful views of South Africa. In January 2012 passing by Oudtdhoorn to visit the Cango caves ( so beautiful) the day after we went up to Swartberg Pass, down below the valley was an amazing green.....South Africa is my best holidays spot, it's so diversified; the sea, the desert, the mountains and the people so friendly ....
Arriving from Northern Rhodesia in the sixties, Mom,Dad and 4 children in our VW Microbus. Travelling up the pass mom heard a 'clanging' noise at the rear of the Combi. Closer inspection revealed that left wheel were 3 nuts loose ( you could turn them out with 2 fingers and another nut laying loose in the hubcap.
God's Grace.
Danny Fourie Gauteng
That's the Swartberg Pass ... from both sides. There is no Prince Albert Pass ... but there is a Prince Alfred Pass ... from the R62 Langkloof to either Plett or Knysna (depending if you turn left or right) ... another one of the most beautiful passes in South Africa - nice video by the way.
Quite an adventure 😊 I must say. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
I just love to watch the video's of you and your wife's travels and the views of the country. It is sure hard to watch you drive on the wrong side of the road.
We are daredevils that way 👹
Happy belated birthday Matt. Love these videos! Simply awesome to watch and so well filmed. You should be proud.
Ag! I wanted to meet the PEOPLE of 'Die Hel'! 😄
Oh wow, what a pleasure to watch! (After enduring 20 minutes of ASPW ranting about South Africans!)
In 1972 my dad took us there with a landrower and a small gypsy caravan. We had un hinge and rehinge that little caravan many times. That time there were no store or campsite but we had fun. It toke us about 6 hours in and 7 out.
Amazing video - shows you how handy drones can be - the scenery is absolutely beautiful. I have never seen anything like this - all other countries - eat your hearts out. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. This is a 10/10 video - you need to get a reward for it. God bless. [ ZA-KZN]
I am sooo proud of u please do not stop this magical work
Awesome 💥Thanks for sharing 🤗Brought back sosoo many memories 👣South Africa CapeTown 🧜♀️❤
Cape town is really beautiful, amazing content
We did part of that trip in January 2022. Totally unplanned and on the sour of the moment as we were heading home to Durban from Mossel Bay as I decided to show my wife Oudshoorn, the Swartberg Pass and Prince Albert. I had done this trip some decades arealier and wanted her to experience the raw beauty of the area. Needless to say our trip home to Durban, instead of taking from Monday midday to Wednesday morning (earliest eta) resulted in a home arrival of 10pm the next Sunday night. Epic trip
Wow, that's really awesome, thanks.
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Thanks
What a beautiful perspective of Die Hell you’ve given me. I appreciate your content, extremely well put together 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Did a 10 day Army leadership course out of the Academy in Saldanha back in the early 70's. Snow on the mountains, heat stroke in the Hel for the unfit with poor water management skills. We did it on foot from Zoar, Seweweeks, down into the valley (plenty rapelling) across the snow cold Gamka, up and along the mountains. Final day was a welcome event! Loved it.
The inhabitants at the rough end of the valley still roped their donkeys and carts up the mountains to go shopping! Amazing.
That’s intense!!
Wow it’s beautiful I drove there pulling a big trailer,I was scared but it was worth it ❤
Loving your videos, I’m an Eastern Cape boy living in Perth Australia. Watching your video, my Ozzie daughter walks in and asks who I’m talking. Apparently Matt you sound exactly like I do 🤣🤣
Me and 2 other friends camped at the exact same spot with our adventure bikes last year Dec. We left the morning at 5:00 and it was already 33c. Its a absolute gem of a place. Its called the Hel for a reason, it gets moer hot in summer.
My wife and did the Swartberg pass on our Yamaha 750 triple road bike
A very frightening and exhilirating trip. On the downhill bits she actually dozed off! How do I know? Her visor on her helmet kept banging me in the back of my neck. The most painful parts of my body where my fore arms and wrists. This was as a result of holding upper body up and steering the bike around large stones and washaways on the gravel road. It was a fantastic trip! We are both well into our 80's now. Many times we pull out the photos and relive that journey. Marvelling at the steep and sharp bends we slipped and slided through
Not once did we 'come off'!!
Beautiful
New series! I very much like the close ups like the grasshopper and flowers. Thank you for that Nicole and the focus on the simple things.
Yip, that is Nicole’s artistic side coming through!
My favourite drive - I do it every year.
STUNNING VIDEO - thank you! it's the first video I have seen that does some sort of justice to this incredible place.
Wow! Awesome footage giving a good idea of what to expect! Thank you🤝🏼
Absolutely great! You put us on the scene, feels as if I am on holiday while watching🌟 Fantastic video and editing 👌
great commentary. great drone work. great route chosen. just a very interesting trip so thanks for your efforts to produce this
Great video. Brought back awesome memories of the trip we did about 8 years ago.
Goed skiet ou maat dankie dat jy ons wys hoe lyk dinge duskant van die wereld
Really magnificent!
Great production ❤️
Wow bud, you quite gifted the way you put this all together using the drone and all, beautiful road trip.
Your awesome camera work and editing skills make for an outstanding presentation! Thanks for the upload
Another great video of a beautiful area. I did this on my motorcycle not too long ago. I, as a relative newcomer to off-road riding, found it very tough. But very beautiful. I see Matt also likes his tomato sauce. Good man, Matt!
Die hell and swartberg are one of my favourite places in South Africa. I started my garden route tour from prince albert and the trip was too good! Nice video! A subscription from me💪
Just discovered you channel.
I must say it's a great service you're doing. You're really showing or opening up the country, particularly it's natural beauty in perhaps the most ideal way.
Thank you for that. It's indeed appreciated as so many have testified.
Too beautiful 🤍 missing my country.
Very cool trip. Great editing, beautiful music and what a gorgeous setting for a journey's end.
Another great video. Thank you. Small point - someone should proof-read the captions. It's actually quite funny reading what the scribe heard him say.
Thank you for sharing! Amazing! My kind of place. 😊🙏🏻
What a road trip. This is absolutely beautiful
Great production Matt, well done
Thanks for this 'You Too', another wonderful road trip to watch!
Most enjoyable series on You Tube, for me at least...
I had the honor to sray in " Die Hel" in a dry river gorge. In a small tent for 2. The Swartberg mountain i know like my hand. Yes on top of Wawielberg next ti a beuatifull waterfall, one of many on the Prince Albert side we stayed in our small tent, exploring the mountain. Our bath was the pools. At night we enjoyed the company of the wildlife in the mountain. The sky was so near us that we could nearly touch the stars.. In "Die Hel" we came face to face wuth a leopard. Luckily for us the wind blew in the right direction. I will love to do this one more time..
Sorry the waboomsberg..
Matt and Nicole, your channel is just awesome to watch, well done!!!
Love your travels, your representation of areas you vist, the detailed surrounding info, drone footage, etc, etc.
Personally I think the quality of your videos improve each time, just stunning 😉👌🏻
Keep it up, and yes, I’m convinced you had a fab birthday 😁👏🏻👏🏻
Love the quality of the footage and narration. Regards from Johannesburg
Thanks for taking us along we enjoy the view and I must say you really good
I've been over most of the roads you've covered, but I did not do the bit down to the hell. My car would not have been abled to do the trip. Thank for this video, now I down's have to do it & it brings back good memories.
This is where I grew up. Love jt know this area well..
THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO. KEEP POSTING
Your videos are exceptional. I was born in Oudtshoorn in 1962
Great video, thank you. The drone footage gave a lot more perspective. Which was very helpful. I am doing this trip at the end of August with a bunch of mates on motorcycles.
Matt you do a great job mate, I rate your channel as one of the best productions around... so honest and very relatable commentary too.
Excellent video. Thanks for producing and sharing.
I remember travelling over the Swartberg pass when I was a child.We only had a Studebaker car.Very slow traveling.Thank for this beautiful
Epic video.
This video is so good son ! This region of the klien karoo I know well having spent many a school holiday in the 70s & 80s on a working fram at Calitzdorp. But I never got to do the Swartberg and Die Hell .So its still on the bucket list. Hopefully 2023. Thank you and yours all the best from Tom Brennan.
Great trip this - SwartBerg Pass has to be one of my favourite off-road routes in ZA - have cycled up and over a few times and it’s always such an adventure.
Wonderful to experience it, I've been there twice
I very much enjoy your travels and the 4x4 Hi-Lux build, first saw you on 22 Plinkster. you have a lovely country and you really enjoy it! I found your Biltong "cake" very interesting , I have never seen anything like its here I the USA. I did find a company here that claims to make Biltong with South African method and spices, and will be ordering some to try. Please keep up you great videos ,and travels, thanks and have a great day.
I think i must try this biltong cake mmm
I've never heard of biltong cake and I live in SA. A cake is synonymous with something sweet, I wouldn't want to associate dried meat and cake. Love biltong though
Gamkaskloof is a worthy bucket list dirt pass. My son and I did it in his 1000cc Suzuki Samurai at the end of 2015. Awesome.
My Beautiful country south African 🇿🇦. Being on many road trips around South Africa for work and leisure. But it has been years since. Life has changed in recent years. Hope to in the future.
#loveroadtrips
#Beautiful🇿🇦
We did Die Hel in 2005 on motorcycles, with our wives as pillions, not much has changed over the years still looks familiar, thanks for the great video, awesome.
One of your best. Dankie
Baine only completed the pass, he didn't start it ! It was in fact started and planned by Jan Tassies who went bankrupt after 13 months and only completimg 6 kilometers of the road. I am glad your drone didn't get hurt badly and you could still show us the beautiful view from above !
Epic episode as always
So awsome right in our back yard
Beautiful video shots!!! Drone does magic.
Cool video. You do a lovely job of keeping our interest. Some glorious shots and wonderful scenery you’ve captured. Thanks for this .. at my age I’ll give Die Hel a miss.. your movie says it all.💫🌞
20 years ago we 4 guys decided to do a road trip, was 3 Brazilians and a Portugueseguy, we took a map a tent and off we go, somewhere in the middle of karoo we run out of petrol, we kept going and find a little town with a pump, manual pump filled up and we passed that pass, after 15 000 km we decided to come back to Josy, was one of the best road trip.
Enjoyed the video... Beautiful scenery and interesting facts. Thought there were too many speeded up bits in vid. Always wanted to know what place was like. Thanks
Great music choice, amazing drone visuals, well done, awesome, nice touch with the historic info. Did you hire the car or does it belong to you, really well kited out.
Love your adventure videos! Those bacon buns look leka!
I remember so well the opening of the road into 'Did hel' as I grew up in Prince Albert and my dad served on the Prince Albert Divisional Council, responsible for building the road. A mr du Plessis was administrator of the Cape Province and visited Prince Albert to open the road. Mrs Marie Luttig was in charge of the official dinner held in honour of mr du Plessis in the church hall. I was in grade 11 or 12 and we served as waiters at this dinner. Mrs Luttig, or as I knew her, 'tannie Marie' trained us how to properly serve the VIP guests from one side and remove llates from the other side. Desert was very fancy, a baked brandy pudding whuch was 'set alight' as we girl 'waitresses' walked in a row from the kitchen into the dining area to serve desert. This was a very fancy affair for a small country town in those days!!
Just wanted to mention this as well: many years after the opening of this road or pass down to the hell, I visited it again. A guy was luving there making a living on his own. He 'sold' information, like the value of land un the Hell for example for R5.00!!
Apologies for typo errors in both messages - typing too fast!!
Wow. Thank you so much for this video!
A very well put together and narrated video.Thanks.(JHB-SA)
I've been there a few times, always on a motorcycle. The last time was during the Garden Route Rally. I have a very good friend, oom Nick Coetzee. He had a Suzuki DR that had not been ridden for a while and he asked me to take the bike for the trip. A nice ride it was. When we came back the Biker's Church pastor was highly amused at me going to Hell on Nick's motorcycle.
Happy birthday matt God bless
Awesome views.
Thank you Matt for sharing your beautiful Adventures with you two, every single episode, just love the bilton cake, where can we get it in the UK. HAHAHA. Have fun and stay blessed.
I really enjoy your travel vlogs. It's always like a Feierabend mini vacation 😊👌🏻
This is very lovely 👌☺️
Went down to Die Hel on my motorcycle...had been on my bucket list for year's. It was epic!
Great video Dude! So glad the drone was ok, so you could get us some nice shots. Love the B roll footage
Thanks for sharing you experience. Inspiring.
many happy returns matt
If one looks closely at switchbacks on the old passes, where the turn has to be tight, one can notice when travelling up hill, just before the turn the track goes downhill.
Whenever making a turn the oxcarts- usually having eight oxen - needed to have a downhill stretch whether going down, the track naturally has this, or going up the mountain; the down hill gradient caused the oxen and cart to bunch up and allow a much tighter turn.
This is so relaxing 💙
Thanks or sharing
You are lucky to drive it. I was still in school when we walked it from Calitzdorp over the wide neck and connect with the road. You then start to decent down the road. We slept just below the pass and the following day we took the old trusty "binneband tjoep down the river back to Oudtshoorn. It was called the "To Hell and Gone Sleepfoot Special" Trek. It really was hell if you were not an experienced walker water was a big problem for you. But hell it was a beautiful walk.
Living the best life.
Meiringspoort is amazing... Crossing the same river many many times...