Tankwa Karoo — R355 Gravel Crossing
Hard
gravel
Ceres, Western Cape community Loading map…
Elevation profile
Min 790m · Max 1050m · Gain 648m · 95 km
Route stats
- Distance
- 95 km
- Elevation gain
- 650 m
- −650 m descent
- Max grade
- 3.6%
- 0.7% avg
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Surface
- Gravel
- Route type
- Loop
About this route
From the Karoo Poort gateway near Ceres, the R355 runs dead-straight across the Tankwa's lunar semi-desert — South Africa's longest uninterrupted gravel road, a self-supported grind notorious for shredding tyres with no fuel, shops or cell signal for 100km.