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    TAKE A HIKE

    Sep 16, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS KYRA TARR
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    SHELLEY CHRISTIANS

    As you wind your way up Bainskloof Pass (R301) from Wellington, the precarious corners and sheer drop-offs alert you to the fact the mountains reign supreme up here. The peaks and crags are imposing, but that’s okay – it’s what you came for.

    The pass was completed in 1849, built by convicts under the supervision of Andrew Geddes Bain, a noted South African geologist and road engineer (and father of another mountain pass legend, Thomas Bain). Andrew Bain built eight passes in total before his death in 1864.

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