- Card payments welcome
- Exceptional straight roads
- Dramatic scenery (mountains and sandy/rocky desert)
- Not much wildlife due to the extremes in heat (it can get up to 46 degrees Celsius in the summer and very cold at night)
- The baboons seem to survive in the desert.
- River beds are dry and the line of trees dotted along the landscape indicate where there is an underground water source.
- Friendly people
- Popular tourist destination for South Africans
- Dust clouds from passing vehicles – visible for a good distance.