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  • Karoo

    National Park

    South Africa

    Beaufort West


    (see next after this

    coffee break)


  • Inside the Karoo National Park

    with partially bad road conditions

    on side routes

  • The Karoo Park is getting more interesting on the small roads


  • The landscape didn't substantially change for hundred of millions of years

  • The hartebeest is called "harte" deer because in Africaans 'harte' means heart. The horn forms a heart. Look at it.

  • Time is relative. Time is endless in the Karoo.

    The oldest granite is from 4 billion years ago.


    "The land will never change.

          If you change the land,

                it will turn on you."


        Australian saying from an

        Aborigine Elder


  • The Bradysaurus is the oldest reptile, which lived 265 million years ago  

    It belonged to the therapsida, which were the ancestors of us, the mammals

  • Earth, water, sun and the sky with the distinctive smell of the land with its vegetation - makes you small and reverential


South Africa - a complete world in one country

If you look at an atlas you see that South Africa covers the whole southern peak of the African continent.

You'll find all of the climate zones of the continent






Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification


except from the extrem rainforest and the cold continental climate zones. Most of the area of the country is dry and, therefore, semi-desert.

No question that the area of Port Elizabeth is one of the most comfortable zones as it provides a mediterranean climate.