ISOLATED in the Mountains: Gamkaskloof (Die Hel) via Swartberg Pass | "Best of the West", pt.1 

This is fantastic. Finally a local promoting our beautiful Western Cape. Also, something to share with friends and family overseas. We are very privileged. I'm glad that I "stumbled" across your RU-vid channel. Thank you.

I love this. Thank you for sharing this Durbanite the West in detail. I'm physically disabled and I highly appreciate videos like this.

Thanks for your channel - just last evening my son, who left SA as a five year old, was asking about the Western Cape and the Karoo... the chat was brought on by listening to a few Piet Botha/ Jackhammer songs... "Laat Die Wiele Rol" and That's How We Roll... I've shared the link with him and other family members who left with us from PE airport, 23 years ago! I see you're from PE so I'll be perving on all your content, that's for sure! Keep up the great work - and, happy belated birthday! I hope you did something great for this year's edition too!!

South Africa 🇿🇦 is a very beautiful country

So much memories! Thankyou!!! Now I am alone, my husband passed 8yrs. God bless

How wonderful to be able to see that far and remote place, when one does not have the means to actually travel out there. I've heard so much about the place. Thank you so much for taking us on a "couch travel" to also enjoy it. Please do more such travels.

I was at Oudtshoorn in the army in 1974. We explored the area weekend after weekend. This video recalled so many good memories that will stay with me until my death And now I am living in Australia but SA will stay my country.

Happy Birthday Matt! and wish you many more. Thank you for all these amazing videos.:) Looking forward to watching many more. Greetings from Germany:)

That's the Swartberg Pass ... from both sides. There is no Prince Albert Pass ... but there is a Prince Alfred Pass ... from the R62 Langkloof to either Plett or Knysna (depending if you turn left or right) ... another one of the most beautiful passes in South Africa - nice video by the way.

Thanks to share those beautiful views of South Africa. In January 2012 passing by Oudtdhoorn to visit the Cango caves ( so beautiful) the day after we went up to Swartberg Pass, down below the valley was an amazing green.....South Africa is my best holidays spot, it's so diversified; the sea, the desert, the mountains and the people so friendly ....

In 1963 did this with my parents in our Opel. Never forgotten that holiday

I just love to watch the video's of you and your wife's travels and the views of the country. It is sure hard to watch you drive on the wrong side of the road.

Great scenic drive

Happy belated birthday Matt. Love these videos! Simply awesome to watch and so well filmed. You should be proud.

Quite an adventure 😊 I must say. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Matt where ever you are from, you did not grew up in the Karoo. Imagine: 4X4, combat vehicle tyres, letting down the tyre pressure. Sorry that I laughed at you but we've been over the Swartbergpas in a 1961 Zephyr-6: 3 gears forward and reverse. Easy goings. What would you have done if a car came from the opposite side? No, I won't tell you. Educate yourself. The nicest fruit you can but only dream of came from The Hell, grapes. Pears and the best ever peaches: Rlberta's. There were still people living there when we were there. Well thank you for having taken me back to my childhood years. It was good to tears to see it again.

just love it. Well done. I am going there next week and looking forward to nature and adventure. Thanks for sharing.

What a beautiful perspective of Die Hell you’ve given me. I appreciate your content, extremely well put together 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Me and 2 other friends camped at the exact same spot with our adventure bikes last year Dec. We left the morning at 5:00 and it was already 33c. Its a absolute gem of a place. Its called the Hel for a reason, it gets moer hot in summer.

I am sooo proud of u please do not stop this magical work

Oh wow, what a pleasure to watch! (After enduring 20 minutes of ASPW ranting about South Africans!)

Arriving from Northern Rhodesia in the sixties, Mom,Dad and 4 children in our VW Microbus. Travelling up the pass mom heard a 'clanging' noise at the rear of the Combi. Closer inspection revealed that left wheel were 3 nuts loose ( you could turn them out with 2 fingers and another nut laying loose in the hubcap. God's Grace. Danny Fourie Gauteng

Awesome 💥Thanks for sharing 🤗Brought back sosoo many memories 👣South Africa CapeTown 🧜‍♀️❤

Loving your videos, I’m an Eastern Cape boy living in Perth Australia. Watching your video, my Ozzie daughter walks in and asks who I’m talking. Apparently Matt you sound exactly like I do 🤣🤣

Matt you do a great job mate, I rate your channel as one of the best productions around... so honest and very relatable commentary too.

Amazing video - shows you how handy drones can be - the scenery is absolutely beautiful. I have never seen anything like this - all other countries - eat your hearts out. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. This is a 10/10 video - you need to get a reward for it. God bless. [ ZA-KZN]

My favourite drive - I do it every year. STUNNING VIDEO - thank you! it's the first video I have seen that does some sort of justice to this incredible place.

great commentary. great drone work. great route chosen. just a very interesting trip so thanks for your efforts to produce this

Great video. Brought back awesome memories of the trip we did about 8 years ago.

Cape town is really beautiful, amazing content

Matt and Nicole, your channel is just awesome to watch, well done!!! Love your travels, your representation of areas you vist, the detailed surrounding info, drone footage, etc, etc. Personally I think the quality of your videos improve each time, just stunning 😉👌🏻 Keep it up, and yes, I’m convinced you had a fab birthday 😁👏🏻👏🏻

New series! I very much like the close ups like the grasshopper and flowers. Thank you for that Nicole and the focus on the simple things.

Wow! Awesome footage giving a good idea of what to expect! Thank you🤝🏼

Die hell and swartberg are one of my favourite places in South Africa. I started my garden route tour from prince albert and the trip was too good! Nice video! A subscription from me💪

Just discovered you channel. I must say it's a great service you're doing. You're really showing or opening up the country, particularly it's natural beauty in perhaps the most ideal way. Thank you for that. It's indeed appreciated as so many have testified.

Wow it’s beautiful I drove there pulling a big trailer,I was scared but it was worth it ❤

Did a 10 day Army leadership course out of the Academy in Saldanha back in the early 70's. Snow on the mountains, heat stroke in the Hel for the unfit with poor water management skills. We did it on foot from Zoar, Seweweeks, down into the valley (plenty rapelling) across the snow cold Gamka, up and along the mountains. Final day was a welcome event! Loved it. The inhabitants at the rough end of the valley still roped their donkeys and carts up the mountains to go shopping! Amazing.

Your awesome camera work and editing skills make for an outstanding presentation! Thanks for the upload

Absolutely great! You put us on the scene, feels as if I am on holiday while watching🌟 Fantastic video and editing 👌

Beautiful

Wow bud, you quite gifted the way you put this all together using the drone and all, beautiful road trip.

Thank you for sharing! Amazing! My kind of place. 😊🙏🏻

Very cool trip. Great editing, beautiful music and what a gorgeous setting for a journey's end.

Thanks for this 'You Too', another wonderful road trip to watch! Most enjoyable series on You Tube, for me at least...

Epic video.

Another great video of a beautiful area. I did this on my motorcycle not too long ago. I, as a relative newcomer to off-road riding, found it very tough. But very beautiful. I see Matt also likes his tomato sauce. Good man, Matt!

Great video, thank you. The drone footage gave a lot more perspective. Which was very helpful. I am doing this trip at the end of August with a bunch of mates on motorcycles.

Really magnificent! Great production ❤️

THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO. KEEP POSTING

Ag! I wanted to meet the PEOPLE of 'Die Hel'! 😄

Great trip this - SwartBerg Pass has to be one of my favourite off-road routes in ZA - have cycled up and over a few times and it’s always such an adventure.

Awesome views.

Thanks for taking us along we enjoy the view and I must say you really good

Cool video. You do a lovely job of keeping our interest. Some glorious shots and wonderful scenery you’ve captured. Thanks for this .. at my age I’ll give Die Hel a miss.. your movie says it all.💫🌞

What a road trip. This is absolutely beautiful

I've been over most of the roads you've covered, but I did not do the bit down to the hell. My car would not have been abled to do the trip. Thank for this video, now I down's have to do it & it brings back good memories.

We did Die Hel in 2005 on motorcycles, with our wives as pillions, not much has changed over the years still looks familiar, thanks for the great video, awesome.

I remember travelling over the Swartberg pass when I was a child.We only had a Studebaker car.Very slow traveling.Thank for this beautiful

Love your videos. Thank you for sharing ‘out of the way’ parts of South Africa. Inspires me to get on the road. 🙏

I really enjoy your travel vlogs. It's always like a Feierabend mini vacation 😊👌🏻

This is where I grew up. Love jt know this area well..

many happy returns matt

Gamkaskloof is a worthy bucket list dirt pass. My son and I did it in his 1000cc Suzuki Samurai at the end of 2015. Awesome.

Wonderful to experience it, I've been there twice

This video is so good son ! This region of the klien karoo I know well having spent many a school holiday in the 70s & 80s on a working fram at Calitzdorp. But I never got to do the Swartberg and Die Hell .So its still on the bucket list. Hopefully 2023. Thank you and yours all the best from Tom Brennan.

Love the quality of the footage and narration. Regards from Johannesburg

Goed skiet ou maat dankie dat jy ons wys hoe lyk dinge duskant van die wereld

Excellent video. Thanks for producing and sharing.

My wife and did the Swartberg pass on our Yamaha 750 triple road bike A very frightening and exhilirating trip. On the downhill bits she actually dozed off! How do I know? Her visor on her helmet kept banging me in the back of my neck. The most painful parts of my body where my fore arms and wrists. This was as a result of holding upper body up and steering the bike around large stones and washaways on the gravel road. It was a fantastic trip! We are both well into our 80's now. Many times we pull out the photos and relive that journey. Marvelling at the steep and sharp bends we slipped and slided through Not once did we 'come off'!!

Beautiful place, as usual you videos are just amazing. Congrats to both of you.

Too beautiful 🤍 missing my country.

Thanks for sharing you experience. Inspiring.

We did part of that trip in January 2022. Totally unplanned and on the sour of the moment as we were heading home to Durban from Mossel Bay as I decided to show my wife Oudshoorn, the Swartberg Pass and Prince Albert. I had done this trip some decades arealier and wanted her to experience the raw beauty of the area. Needless to say our trip home to Durban, instead of taking from Monday midday to Wednesday morning (earliest eta) resulted in a home arrival of 10pm the next Sunday night. Epic trip

Went down to Die Hel on my motorcycle...had been on my bucket list for year's. It was epic!

Your videos are exceptional. I was born in Oudtshoorn in 1962

Great production Matt, well done

Beautiful video shots!!! Drone does magic.

Thanks for sharing.The work is excellent and awsome to watch.Very well done.

Wow. Thank you so much for this video!

I love this ...great work✌️

Very nice , what a great place, the best to you and yours 😁

Stunning shots !

Wow class your pick up and you found a nice place bravo Matt 👍👏👏👏😉✊

This is amazing honestly.👌

Love the video. I stayed there in August 2018, it was great.

So awsome right in our back yard

Happy birthday matt God bless

Another great video. Thank you. Small point - someone should proof-read the captions. It's actually quite funny reading what the scribe heard him say.

Nice video thanks for sharing.

Great video Dude! So glad the drone was ok, so you could get us some nice shots. Love the B roll footage

Love your adventure videos! Those bacon buns look leka!

This is so relaxing 💙

Fantastic vid. Made me homesick as hell! We’ve got to try this route the next time we are in SA.

great videos guys , please make more 😁

I live in Cape Town but only did Swartberg pass last year, on my bike. I really enjoy your videos Matt, subscribed!!!

I very much enjoy your travels and the 4x4 Hi-Lux build, first saw you on 22 Plinkster. you have a lovely country and you really enjoy it! I found your Biltong "cake" very interesting , I have never seen anything like its here I the USA. I did find a company here that claims to make Biltong with South African method and spices, and will be ordering some to try. Please keep up you great videos ,and travels, thanks and have a great day.

This is very lovely 👌☺️

Done this trip very interesting!

Epic episode as always

A very well put together and narrated video.Thanks.(JHB-SA)