I counted (well i tried, almost impossible) about 7 passes going in there. Elands Pass drops 579 meters into the kloof in only 4.7 kilometres, that’s insane! What makes it worse is the condition of the road e.g. a mixture of big + small marbles or sharply pointed rocks all over the place, falling rocks or rock slides, corrugation, holes, wash-aways, very longs stretches of narrow road, the steepness, the heat (and cold and wet when a front suddenly moves in), the wind, huge drop-offs/cliffs, other vehicles (had to watch ahead so that you could hopefully find one of a very few spots to wait and get passed, without being bumped down a rockface) etc. Sadly i didn’t spend much time in the kloof as i wanted to get the hell out of there as fast as i can as i was worried i wouldn’t be able to.
