WORDS AND PICTURES: CINDY-LOU DALE
Route 62 is South Africa’s answer to Australia’s Outback, to America’s Arizona Desert. Set back from the renowned Garden Route, few visitors have heard of it, let alone driven it – making it one of the least travelled highways in the country. It is dotted with padstalle serving home-bakes like koeksusters (small plaited pastries, deep fried then marinated in syrup), buttermilk rusks and farm produce, whilst others host frontier bars serving moonshine, biltong, dröewors and Nik-Naks corn bites. It’s a journey undertaken by the most adventurous of long-distance road-trippers… and one that gives a glimpse of life in the Karoo
Rusks and rooibos, a Karoo staple