DIRECTIONS TO AFRIKA BURNS FROM CAPE TOWN

The venue for Afrika Burns is a fabulously remote, beautiful and other-worldly area: it’s like a three and a half hour drive to the moon.  The perfect blank canvas that we wish to provide for Afrika Burns to become what its going to become.  This venue is on the longest stretch of road in South Africa without a town on it (we are half way up it).  So this means that preparation is very important.

Once off the N1, the remainder of the route is about 45 km on  tar  and 110 km on un-tarred road. The un-tarred road is in good condition and any regular car can drive on it. There are some road-works in the area which may (or may not) be ongoing during the event. The second half of the journey is without cell phone reception. Please make sure that you have a decent spare tyre, jack and wheel spanner.

NB: Please be reminded that there will be no commercial vending/activity at Afrika Burns whatsoever … there will be NO food, drinks or booze for sale at the event. You must bring all your own food, WATER (for drinking, cleaning and washing) and camping equipment for the full duration of your stay at the event.

It’s a hot desert environment, so please make sure that you bring sufficient water, a shade structure for your campsite is also advisable. Also remember that Afrika Burns is a “leave-no-trace” event and you must remove all your own rubbish at the end of the event. ALSO, don’t forget that Afrika Burns is a participant created event. So don’t forget to bring whatever you and your group have been “komplotting” to gift to the Afrika Burns community.…

Back to directions:  

• Head out on the N1 highway North towards Worcester
• Go through the Hugenot Tunnel, Worcester, De Doorns
• Approximately 160kms along the N1, 10kms BEFORE Touws River, turn LEFT onto the R46, towards Ceres.
• Fill your petrol/diesel tank up in Worcester or Touws River as there is no fuel available thereafter.
• This road continues for approximately 40kms and ends in a T-junction.
• At the T-junction turn RIGHT onto the R355 Towards Calvinia and Sutherland.
• Approximately 100m on, the road turns to dust.
• THIS SECTION OF ROAD IS NARROW, HAS BENDS, HAS A STEEP DROP AND NO BARRIERS. PLEASE GO VERY SLOWLY HERE. DO NOT GO FASTER THAN 60KM/H. THIS PATCH DOES NOT CONTINUE FOR LONG, SO HAVE PATIENCE…PLEASE….
• It is also about here that you will lose cell phone reception, except for a few very low reception patches here and there.  So don’t be relying on cell phone reception for anything.
• There will be another small section of tar road (as the road passes through a settlement), and will turn to dust again.
• Stay on the R355 towards Calvinia (Do not turn right to Sutherland).
• The entrance to the venue for Afrika Burns is approximately 113 kms along this road, just after a small settlement called “Tweefontein”.
• Your land marks for getting closer are: a small white bridge crossing the Tankwa “river” (this means you are about 2kms away from the turn off into the venue) followed by a satellite telephone tower on your left hand side.
• You will then turn RIGHT into the property known as “STONEHENGE”
• As you go through the gate there will be a couple of small cottages on your RIGHT…a settlement called “Lekkerlag”
• This is a small two track farm road, it is suitable for small cars, but you need to go slowly.
• The TICKETING (WILL CALL) CENTRE will be 5kms along this road. This is where you can collect your tickets, then move on to be greeted and arrive at Afrika Burns!

PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY!
We are looking forward to seeing you there!