Today was the start of a week-long road trip with my brother and cousin! We woke up at 3 a.m. to catch our flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg. We arrived safe and sound, and then hit the road for Waterval Boven, which is about halfway between Joburg and Kruger and one of the best rock climbing places in Africa. We took a roundabout way getting to Waterval Boven and also tried taking a slightly longer route to avoid the toll road, but it put us on this long dirt road. Hoping the rental car is ok!
The Roc n’ Rope Adventure center where we checked in for the hostel for the night was very helpful. They lent us a guide of the routes for the two days we were there and had a pretty cool rock climbing shop. We picked up some bread, peanut butter, jelly, apples and rusks, and we were on our way to the rocks.
We got some awesome climbing routes in the afternoon, which were some of the best routes I have ever climbed in my whole life. I climbed a South African grade 20, which is an American grade 5.10c and the hardest I have ever done! The rock is red sandstone, which was beautiful and nice on the hands.
The concentration of routes was amazing! I have never seen so many awesome routes in one location, and we were only at one of the walls, the Hallucinogen Wall. We climbed until we could not see anymore, then went to the Aloe Restaurant and had some awesome fresh trout, which they prepared for us in the midst of load shedding.
The hostel we stayed at was awesome. It was a great hangout place for climbers, and we were some of the few people there.
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