HIGH UP in the East Cape Drakensberg: So Many INSANE Mountain Passes! | Drakensberg pt.1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- We begin another adventure as we gain over 11,500 Meters en route to the iconic East Cape Highlands!
0:00 - Series Intro
2:26 - Hitting the Road: Up towards the Amathole Mts.
3:46 - The Transkei
5:08 - Barkly Pass
6:50 - In the East Cape Highlands
9:08 - Lundean's New Pass
13:20 - At Lesotho's Doorstep
14:11 - Wartrail Valley
15:00 - Volunteershoek Pass
16:33 - Tiffendell
17:51 - Carlisleshoekspruit Pass
20:20 - The Little Town of Rhodes
21:16 - Finding Camp at Alpine Swift
Thanks to DAG Outdoor and LA Sport for supporting this channel: 4x4wholesalersafrica.com
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Wow, Matt your cinematography is improving with every series. You're becoming a great ambassador for the country. Keep up the great job!
These adventures are simply spectacular Matt. Thank you as always for taking us along with you two so that we may enjoy it as well. These trips are among my very favorite videos of any type to watch. You videogrophy is becoming quite exceptional.
Beautiful country and the drone footage is spectacular. Thank you both.
Our country is amazing thanks Matt for reminding us why this country needs to be protected and well governed.
I'm actually tearing up! I cannot believe I have the honor of calling this my home land... SA is truelly the most beautiful place in all of existence!
You can see where J. R. Tolkien got the idea of middle earth!! Hobbit lands and mountain passed
I was born in PE and this made me very homesick! Thanks Matt, for reminding me how beautiful Africa still is!
I moved to PE, you are right, it is beautiful
This area is a hidden gem in the eastern cape. You have done a excellent job in capturing the majestic beauty of this area.
I genuinely enjoy your videos, Matt. I do! Brings back memories of when I used to live in South Africa. Thanks to both of you.
I'm biased sure, but this is the most picturesque place in the country. Beautiful, pristine and fresh as it gets. Cant wait for the the SANPARKS to open!!!
Absolutely fantastic, brother! If I could afford, I'd spend a month touring your country!!!❤ You two are well blessed to be able to! Perhaps one day, you'll see me there!!!😃🙏🤞
Not perhaps! You will go on your adventures!
You must be the number 1 South African TH-camr now,in my books anyway! Well done Matt
I love your considered panorama's and drone fly bys with the vehicle moving through teh landscape. Obviously lots of extra work an edting but defenitley adds punch. Makes one want to visit the area for sure. Great job man!
In memory of Scruffy......
A dapple duksie x Yorkie, I took her on a bucket list adventure and completed the Ben 10, in my 2002 td 5 auto Landrover discovery 2
Scruffy , I miss you. You where my companion on so many adventures. Eagerly filling the role of chief of security, It was an honor to be my chosen.
Slept Up-top big mother, Ben Mc duhie.
You are the best youtuber in South Africa I'm very proud of you. Keep up the good work
Superb Matt, thanks such an absolute treat. Beautifully done, lovely music.
Loved this video. SA is a gorgeous country. You getting really good at this and info was great
The whole planet is an magnificent eyesite, beauty beyond believe, but then of course, mankind just doing his utmost by destroying it🤷♂️
You've inspired me to do another trip. Love your perfectly done videos.
We just completed the Ben 10 Eco Challenge driving these amazing passes. Lovely to relive them with your driving.
Thank you for pronouncing Xhosa correctly! 👌
Absolutely amazing bro. Thanks
I love these two people. Best videos ever!! Matt knows how to bring everyone to where they are. Amazing couple. They make me miss home every time I watch the their videos. I can watch them for hours. Beautiful Nicole❤❤
And omg how blue the sky is!!!
Truly enjoyed the video, what a beautiful country we have. Thanks for sharing
It was always my dream to travel the backroads of the country, but I never had the vehicle to do it, and now I don't have the money. But through your camera, my dream is being realized. If you want me or not, I am a forever passenger in your bakkie. Thank you!
What a great video, thanks. It certainly is beautiful country. Thanks again.
As a boy we lived in Aliwal-north, I used to accompany my dad on his early Sunday morning paper run. We would start i Aliwal-north, then head to Lady Grey ,Barkley-east Rhodes ,Elloit,Mclear,Dordrecht ,Jamestown and back to Aliwal in time for lunch,in order to do that my dad usually drove over the high graval passes to cut km,s of his journey....He did those deliveries in a 1400 bakkie ,now you need a 4x4 to traval those passes.....
Stunning scenery (mother nature gets the credit though). Excellent videography and editing (this is all you). Amazing drone work (also you). These videos are some of my favorite TH-cam content ever - they reach down into your soul and trigger emotions - not an easy thing to do through a glowing screen of pixels 14,000 km away, but somehow you do it. Freaking love your country mate and need to get back there again.
Gosh that's beautiful. I'm a South African and I can't believe I've never been there. The way you shot those landscapes wow 👌🏾
Matt, one of your absolute best videos. Can't wait to see the rest of the series. My wife and I (Americans) visited SA for the first time (hopefully of many more!) Last October and one of our most memorable times was driving through the Drakensberg on more or less this same route. So great to relive it and see some absolutely stunning aerial views. Thanks for sharing with us!
Congratulations on an excellent episode. I look forward to more. Thoroughly enjoyed the journey. It most certainly is a most beautiful part of the country.
Absolutely STUNNING!!! We have such a beautifull country!!!
I am thrilled to have come across your site and cannot thank you enough for your incredible narrative and photography, both world class. We tend to forget that despite our country's many challenges, we actually live in paradise, we just have to get out there and into it. You help us all do that from our homes. Can't wait to watch more of your travel offerings. Take care, both of you and be safe out there.
what a tour. Just fantastic!
That's quality work, very well done. I just subscribed!
Great video work again!!! It looks like something the National Geographic Channel here in the USA would have created.
breathtaking views wow, love your adventures... can't wait to see these places with my own eyes
This is amazing, Matt.
Wonderfully captured.
Well done. Brilliant video sir.
It's so easy to sometimes forget how beautiful this country is. Thanks for posting this. You have a new follower.
Brilliant video. Very informative. I am inspired to travel this route. And so i will !!!!!
This is an awesome video - well done! Made me so lus to take this trip.
Too awesome! Thank you for sharing 🤙🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Phenomenal footage
Thanks Matt for a wonderful journey through a part of our beautiful country that I always wanted to visit. Your drone photography is amazing. Regards Mervyn
Mesmerizing beauty, wow, beautiful country
great video loved it very cinematic. It was also nice that you added the route details
Amazing episode and some really awesome drone shots there Matt.
This must be the best video I've seen so far, about this region. Very professional. Love it.
This is so refreshing ☺️☺️🤝
Excellent footage
Such a insane production.South Africa has the most beautiful landscape in the world.Mother Africa the heartbeat of the world.thumbs up my brother.
Thank you!
Incredible coverage of our beautiful country! Super inspiring stuff and great to see people are getting out there and seeing what South Africa has to offer. Looking forward to seeing more from your series!
Stunning!
Brilliant adventure/overland/travel video. I did a trip on exactly these passes, around and into Lesotho via the Ongeluksnek Pass. Your video does more than justice to this part of the world... Great camera work and a great showcase of one of the beauties SA has to offer. Great stuff!!
Thank you for this 🙏
Ukhahlamba mountain range is spectacular.
Super video, Matt. You do a fantastic job with the drone. Even my wife watched this with me. Her image of SA is veld, she didn't realise how green and spectacular parts of SA are.
Enjoyed this video so much because we recognised so many of these places we visited a few years ago. Also try Bastervoetpad pass. Did it with our little skipper trailer in tow. The road is wildly rough but the view is insane!
Once again another awesome video my man. I always get excited when I see you posted a new video. All your drone shots are amazing. You are doing a great job and once again thank you to you both for taking us for the ride. I can't wait till the next video. be safe and stay healthy guys. Btw..when can I expect yourself and Gerhard to put out another video together? Just a thought lol
Hay Mate. Watching from Australia’s Gold Coast. Beautiful place you guys have been through. Envious.
Matt, just love your footage and the way you present it to all of us. Moerse missing my home country now. There is many beautiful places in the world but please remember South Africa might have many faults etc. but its quality of adventure and outdoor activities still needs to be match in my opinion, coming from a lost South African in a foreign country! Greetings to both of you!
Check the date! (Face palm) I've spent the past hour looking for part two! Great video! Thank you..
Absolutely stunning! You really ought to consider selling guided hunts…. Of course it would have to include a tour and shooting session at your Patriot slug factory! 🙂
Awesum video, Thank you. Feeling a bit tearful, I really miss going far from the madding crowd, camping and a rough road or two. Last trip being about 5 yrs ago, into Die Hel in my trusty Mahindra Scorpio (no 4x4) and needing to do some serious water crossings after a hectic storm during the night. What a rush, and me driving about 7 or 8 months after breaking both arms, felt like Wonder Woman, until I passed a little house at the bottom with an old Fiat Uno (or was it a Mazda 323 ) parked in the drive way 😄
This is Beautiful Man
Wonderful mate. As an expat in Oz i never visited this part of SA
Great video, makes me recall the wonderful time we had up there almost 10 years ago. Next time you're at War Trail make sure you spend a night at the krantz at Balloch it's an epic camping spot.
Wow The views I needed, Pls take me with next time😂, Beautiful music selection never mind the drone shots outstanding
Wow great video🇱🇸🇱🇸
Duuuude WTF I wanna do this so baaad!!.. that scenery where yall were parked under the tree was too awesome
Beautiful
Ncoohh what a lovely video and all the scenery of the mountains ⛰ our country is really beautiful if only we could all work together in building its again blacks, whites and pink it's for us to destroy. Makes me proud to be a South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Nice video and cinematic..greeting from indonesia
Matt, Tiffendell as far as I know is for sale, I expect thats why its closed.Gorgeous trip though - thanks for posting.
Mun your work is a BOM!!
great part of the world there
The Eastern Cape Highlands is a less wellknown Wonderland for the Adventure- and Nature lover. The very rough and scenic Bastervoetpad (Lapa Munnik) pass between Ugie and the Mountain Shadows Inn is also very worthwhile driving.
Good one Dubbers!
Matt, I would like to do this same route on an adventure bike. I have ridden most of these passes before, but never like you have done it. Beautiful scenery, and I too have spent many nights at Walkerbouts Inn, Rhodes.
Thanks
We have been watching your videos and we are totally inspired. We have done trips in most of the regions you have been but never on our own. Would you share your routes with us?
Hi Matt & Nicole,
I'll bet you're as up to paper work and writing as I am so I really don't expect a reply but it would be fun.
I'm an old guy, I'll be 77 this month and although I got my first rifle at 8 I've never wanted to apply myself to understand the technical side of shooting. My style has always been, see the dust and adjust. Until I started watching you.
Being on a fixed income and couldn't afford a Impact now but am starting with your Titon 3-18x50 FFP with Eagle Vision mounts, rangefinder and sand bag, I would have preferred the one from Patriot but couldn't get one from Utah Airguns. There going on a S&W MP AR15-22.
When I was 8 we bought a ranch in Oregon that was overrun with digger squirrels and my dad bought me a short barreled 22 single shot and gave me the responsibility of thinning them out. We moved again when I was almost 10 and trust me you might see a digger squirrel but they never stopped moving if they ever got more than their head out of his hole.
After I've got my rifle shooting to my satisfaction I plan to take it to the gun shop I bought the rifle from and introduce them to Element Optics.
My parents had me when they were quite young and I remember camping with them and they remind me of you and Nicole. Also, you look so much like my childhood best friend it's spooky.
Hoping all is well in your world, Rye Hillyer
My old stomping grounds! Born in Elliot, family in Barkly East. Beautiful area. Too bag Elliot turned into a disgusting town. It used to be so neat.
Hi Budd, I honestly am obsessed with your overlanding vids and trips. I myself have decided to build my Amarok for overlanding too. My first trip in July doing the Highlands via Lesotho . Il be driving from jhb. Was hoping by now you would posted a video of you going to Lesotho but I guess the passport saga spoiled it lol hoping you can share soon. I've already watched all your videos. But now I struggle with the go gps app I dnt know if u can share a link I can't seem to get it. It's quite a great tool. Hope u post the rest of the 5 county trip soon
Hi Matt, thanks for the awesome footage. Do you need a 4x4 vehicle to drive through these passes or would a 4x2 with diff lock be good.
Matts, thanx for great content. Please let me know what layers you use on Gaia GPS? I assume you are using the subscribed version?
Keep the good stuff coming!
Kind regards.
Hi Matt ! Beautiful content bud. Definitely got a subscribe from me.
What drone do you use bud ?
Wow ❤❤❤
How does Tiffendal compare with Sani pass? I did Tiffendal and Lundean in a Nissan NP200 with out 4x4 but was too scared to do Sani. Best to do all the above in mid August if you want snow
Hi Matt. Awesome video. Thinking of planning a trip like this next year. Would a Fortuner 2wd with diff lock be capable on all these passes or would you need a 4x4 in some parts?
also trying to find this info
Hi Matt. Ek wil net vir jou se jou videos is regtig TV kaliber, die visuals is uitstekend, die drone footage doen ook maar iets wat niks anders kan nie! Wat jou videos net soveel meer spesiaal en impakvol maak is die manier hoe die visuals, die sound design en dan die uiters belangrike storie en "narration" bymekaar kom om regtig sooo kosbare video te vorm. Die editing is baie baie goed en jou kennis en huiswerk wat jy doen voor so trip maak dit net soveel beter! Hierdie videos is absolutely asemrowend!
My pa en paar van sy vriende het so ruk terug die Ben 10 Eco challenge gedoen op hulle adventure bikes en ek het vir die een oom al die editing gedoen van sy GoPro. So was ek nie daar nie voel als in hierdie video vir my soveel meer bekend maar ook tog al hoe meer desirable om dit te gaan kyk in regte lewe!
Kan jy asb n video maak van die programme en apps wat jy gebruik vir die roete beplanning en die navigation. Ek dink dit sal n baie interesante video maak en n baie hulpsame video aangesien daar min videos daar buite is voel ek oor daai spesifieke onderwerp.
Baie dankie vir die video Matt! Sien uit na die volgende een!
I hope you see this comment. New subby.. please, what are those chants at 12 minutes? What song is that? Soinds really amazing
Scottland is alot like Africa (Afrika) and not the other way around 😄✌️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Loved the video Matt… we would like to emulate your trip… what time of the year would you recommend?
Depends if you want snow or thunderstorms! We went in May and missed both seasons. Summer is green and all the rivers are flowing. Winter can bring good snow. So it really depends what you want to see
@@mattdubber Thanks… so April/May should be a good time then. Thanks for the heads up. Love your work.
How would you go about living in the drakensburg? What's it like?
Lord Lord
Did you descend the passes in low range?
Beautiful Matt..sorry to deviate, but can anyone give advice on how to get rid of Egyptian geese and their offspring in the garden..? They are aggressive and messing in the swimming pool..its the third time they have bred in out garden..please can someone help?
Hey Matt, are black generally welcome at Rhodes. I'd like to get there but would rather be prior informed to the reception to be expecting.