Originally Posted by
Andre
If you cross the border, you need a passport. If you do camp on the Nam side without a passport, just make sure its nowhere near the road, but at a section where the road runs away from the river. (you didnt hear this from me...as technically its illegal, but lots of people do it.) The problem comes in, if there is an incident, and you have to explain to police, insurance company etc...why you were illegally in another country.
Its best to do everything downstream from the Vioolsdrift border post, in Namibia, so my suggestion, is go through the border, and have fun. As Korrie says, do the section from Vioolsdrift to Sendelingsdrift on the Nam side, then come back into SA at Sendelingsdrift, across the pont.
March to May is a risky time of year in the lower Orange, due to the possibility of high flows. The water levels down there anr influenced almost entirely by outflows from the Van Der Kloof dam, and to a lesser extent, the Bloemhof. March May is at the end of summer, so the summer rainfall upstream of the dams, has in all likelihood, filled them up, and them water is released for irrigation, and to keep the dams at a reasonable percentage full, to augment the Eskom grid, and to provide irrigation downstream. The best time of year, is from August, when it is the end of Winter, and the dams are falling low due to low winter rainfall, and water is being conserved.
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