The beconing call of the Bush

Dec 222011
 

The next leg of our excit­ing jour­ney.  Onward to the Bushveld  in Limpopo Province. We left the city behind and grad­u­ally the land­scape changed from con­crete and steel to grass­lands, and then the famil­iar thorn trees of the bush. The bush is lush with green grass and trees. I haven’t seen the veld this green in many years — evi­dence of the ample rain that fell - and it is absolutely breath­tak­ing. Rolling moun­tains as far as the eyes can see, new crop on the fields with won­der­ful sun­sets to com­plete the picture…

This is where my late hus­band was raised and we stayed for five years. We are en-route to visit the in-laws, to renew fam­ily ties and say a quick hello to the many friends we left behind. Walk­ing back on paths we shared brings back mem­o­ries and is good for the soul.

Once you’ve lived in the Bushveld, drank the water and breathed this air, it will for ever, be part of you. It sim­ply refuses to let you go. Wel­come to my heartland…

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Slow driving

Dec 162011
 

The first day of our trip and we hit the road bright and early.  We were blessed with over­cast weather — per­fect for travelling!

It is a 6 hour drive and on pre­vi­ous occa­sions we just wanted to get to our des­ti­na­tion — a kind of “Hit the road Jack” mood… This time how­ever we were in no hurry.  We found our­selves look­ing at the land­scape with “new” eyes… every tree a pic­ture and behind every hill a new sur­prise! It is amaz­ing how a change in per­spec­tive opens your eyes, to once again expe­ri­ence nature in all its glory.

The road is a par­tic­u­larly busy one, frequented by large trucks trans­port­ing goods inland from the coast. Stopping on this busy road is near impos­si­ble and we had to take photo’s as we went along. Every­where we looked was a photo oppor­tu­nity. Because I did the dri­ving, the boys han­dled the cam­era and  between them I con­stantly heard shouts of “look at that” and “this side, quick”! Just for fun we decided to only take pic­tures that is on the left side of the road and pho­to­graph the right side when we return… which, funny enough, will be on our left side again.  Unfor­tu­nately the cloud cover made it impos­si­ble to see the Drak­ens­berg Moun­tains and we will def­i­nitely take pic­tures on the return trip.

Enjoy with us the first leg of our jour­ney — the beauty of the Mid­lands and the lush green­ery of Kwa-Zulu Natal.

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