We were in high spirits after having lunch in Helmeringhausen (about 100 kilometres north of Aus) when our old Landy’s intermittent fuel-starvation problem returned to rain on our parade. However, the frustrating stop-go motion didn’t dampen our enthusiasm for the expansive plains ringed with rugged, flat-topped mountains that we were driving through en route to Aus.
Rolling into the campsite down the road two hours later, we were bowled over by its location among a series of massiveboulder stone hills: a mountainous mélange of Paarl Rock and the tawny, stone midden-like hills that surround Springbok in the Northern Cape. And, as the name suggests, Klein- Aus Vista clearly has a vested interest in this unique location. The “…forever landscapes, solitude, silence and sunsets…” talked about in their marketing material are real; and, according to our neighbours, the main reason that they come back here.
