Off-roading in ancient lands

Before the American inventor Daniel Halladay invented the self-regulating windpump in 1854, the only humans to enter the Great Karoo were hunters tracking migrating game. It’s a harsh world where no farm animal or shepherd can survive without assistance, and therefore, until the advent of the windpump, it was largely unpopulated.

The Tankwa Karoo National Park, however, lies in a more moderate part of the Great Karoo that welcomed its first permanent residents, the Khoisan, 10 000 years ago. The park itself was established in