Access the inaccessible.Create the unforgettable.
Two days in the most secluded valley in South Africa, in the luxury 4×4 you already own. Six cars. A chef, champagne and pressed white linen in a place that had no road until 1962.
In the brochure, your car was standing on a mountain. You have never been.
Forgotten Routes takes owners of luxury 4×4s to that mountain. Your own Range Rover, Defender, G-Class or Cayenne, exactly as it was delivered, following a factory-standard Range Rover Sport down a road most people only read about. That evening, a private camp with a king bed, a chef and a bottle on ice. Nothing about the car changes. Everything about how you see it does.
The descent.
Over the Swartberg Pass and down the ladder into Gamkaskloof. The lead car goes first, in low range, on the same 21-inch wheels the factory fitted. You follow its line. Somewhere around the second hairpin you understand what the engineers built, and why nobody told you.
The Die Hel expedition →
The arrival.
The camp is standing when you round the last bend. Champagne on ice. A private walk-in suite for each car: king bed, pressed white linen, air-conditioning, and an outdoor shower with nothing between you and the cliff. Dust on the doors. A hotel on the inside.
The camp →
The night.
Fire, and a chef. Karoo lamb that has been in the pot since lunch, bread from the coals, wine from over the mountain. Six cars' worth of people who have just done what you have. Then the quietest sleep in the country, under more stars than the city allows.
Choose a date →Five-star. In a kloof.
These are not tents in the camping sense. They are hotel suites that happen to be standing in Die Hel, made up each morning, taken down after you leave.
Range Rover. Defender. G-Class. Cayenne. As delivered.
Every expedition is led by a Range Rover Sport exactly as Land Rover built it. Nothing we ask of your car, ours has not just done, ten metres ahead of you.
No lift. No armour. No modifications beyond a set of standard-size all-terrain tyres. Every crossing is driven in the lead car the week before and again on the morning. The most careful driver sets the pace. Anything that goes wrong on the mountain is ours to put right.
You ask. We call.
Six cars fit in the kloof with room to breathe. When a date fills, it closes, and the next is offered to the waiting list before anyone else hears of it.
Tell us what you drive
Make, model, and what has been done to it. Standard and near-standard luxury 4×4s are offered places first.
A person reads it
Within two days you hear from one of us, with the details, the number and a date, or with your place on the list.
Arrive with a full tank
The route, the camp, the chef, the champagne and the photograph are ours to arrange.
Six cars. One night. Ask, and we'll tell you if there is room.
Tell us what you drive and when you would like to come. Every request is read by a person, and a person calls you back.