Here are some of the pictures from the 2015 joBerg2c stage one between Heidelberg in Gauteng and Frankfort in the Free State. Photos: Em Gatland.
The nine-day, 900km journey takes 800 riders from more than 20 countries from Heidelberg, just south of Johannesburg, to Scottburgh on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.
In the process, they traverse more than 100 farms while riding in the shadow of the mighty Drakensberg.
For more daily images, go to joBerg2c.