Toorwaterpoort

Continue via De Rust and then turn off the tar road towards the mountains. A while later you reach Toorwaterpoort in the Swartberg Mountains - an area that is poorly known by people. The old railway line from Oudtshoorn to the Eastern Cape goes through this kloof, as well as the Traka River from the Karoo to the Little Karoo. It gets it's named from the warm water spring nearby, which the early inhabitants believed had some magical power. The spring is still there but in disuse at the moment. With permission (from whom?) one can walk through the poort along the railway line.