Oppikoppi!

South Africa's biggest and best rock festival, Oppikoppi, starts this weekend. It takes place far up in the bushveld. Hordes descend with camping equipment and take over the otherwise fairly desolate area and some of South Africa's best bands play day and night for four days. I have only been able to attend one Oppikoppi, one of the first, back in 1997. If you are reading in South Africa and have never experienced this four day festival, there is still time. Beers, braii, beautiful people, not so beautiful people, rampant neo-hippies (hey, it's not all fun) and a whole lot of music.