Brand camped at this spot at the Sakrivier, a dry river bed, which only occasionally had water after good rains – and which typically result in flash floods.

This region contains very little vegetation, primarily very low shrubs and yellow grass among a rocky desert kind of landscape.

If you travel north from Brandvlei towards Kenhardt, you will pass through a huge landscape of nothingness for the next 200 km and more.

In 1929, Sir Malcolm Campbell unsuccessfully attempted to break the world land-speed record here by travelling over 300 mph in his Napier-Campbell Blue Bird.

The Karoo area is very thermic and has claimed multiple paragliding world records over the years.