PLAN A MYSTERIOUS VISIT TO THE ABANDONED TOWN OF PUTSONDERWATER FOR YOUR NEXT ROAD TRIP ADVENTURE

Look up “ghost towns of SA” on Wikipedia and you will find four. Ghost towns, of course, are not towns with ghosts in them but towns that have been abandoned and left to rot by once-thriving populations. It’s no surprise then that the four mentioned in SA are old gold-rush towns: Millwood in the Western Cape, near Knysna; Leydsdorp and Schoemansdal in Limpopo; and Eureka, in Mpumalanga.

Wikipedia neglects to mention another now-abandoned site, the remote Putsonderwater in the Northern Cape. Its two closest towns are Kenhardt, a drive of 80km, and Marydale, about 40km in the opposite direction.

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