The Karoo National Park must be one of the most visible national parks in the country. If you travel on the N1 at all between Cape Town and Johannesburg, then you’ve whizzed past it at 120 kilometres an hour.

I say this assuredly, as just ahead is the town of Beaufort West, when travelling from Cape Town, and the ballyhoo of a fine, a requisite part of any trip between the two major cities issued by traffic officers unseen, is why you will have taken more notice of the speed limit than any sign indicating the park, and is possibly why the park remains so underrated …

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