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I’m leaving the volstruisdorpie for Graaf Reinet to check out the Pierneef Museum and the Valley of Desolation. Its about 270 kms, which could take 3 hours, or maybe the whole day. The road to Willowmore takes me through some wide open country with hills and aloes in bright sunlight.
No one else on the road….
ah...kudu country!
You go through the mountains at Buyspoort and you’re out of the Klein Karoo. As the landscape simplifies, the man-made mark on it seems more distinct. In Willowmore, a carefully put together but symbolically obscure piece:
draai of braai
But as I get into the Great Karoo I start to notice an array of enigmatic structures and curiosities that look like the interventions of a contemporary artist…
Travels with Pierneef 