Day: 6 October 2023

Pilgrim’s Rest

Not far from Graskop lies Pilgrim’s Rest, a living museum of a gold digger’s village, which was founded in 1873, when gold was discovered in the Pilgrim’s Creek. News of the discovery of gold led to the first major gold rush in South Africa, and by the end of the same year there were some …

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Graskop

We stayed at the Panorama Camp in Graskop after exploring the Blyde River Canyon. Next to the campsite we went to explore a quite new attraction: a lift takes you down into the gorge and you can explore the indigenious forest on a board walk through the jungle, very different from the grassy cliff tops. …

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