1437 meters above sea level
Murraysburg meander.
For many, the word 'Karoo', conjures up an image of a baked land, a vast plain of aridity and hostile monotony broken only by ironstone koppies whose uniform flat tops are anvils on which the sun relentlessly beats. Men have Men have sweated and cursed this inhospitable region from the time before the first ox wagon left its tracks on the desiccated earth to the present day when the modern motorist on the 1600km strech between Cape Town and Johannesburg tries to put as much of it as possible under his wheels between senset and sunrise.