Contrasting light and shadows in the Echo Ravine, in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park. An easy but exquisitely beautiful walk from Glen Reenen Rest Camp delivers you to the ravine, a wonderland of enormous rock walls, dripping water, crystal clear streams and a diverse plant life. We’ll share more from Echo Ravine, and other trails at Golden Gate, in a forthcoming post.
“Shadowed” is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
To this little plains zebra in the uMkhuze Game Reserve, the waterhole was a fascinating new experience.
“New” is the theme for the WordPress Photo Challenge of 02/01/2015
What could be warmer than a mother’s love?
We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Warmth” was the theme for the challenge of 26/12/2014
The grasslands of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park are a tapestry of wild flowers and seeding grasses in summer. Among these are some brilliant yellow varieties.
We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Yellow” was the theme for the challenge of 19/12/2014
The sun reflecting from a rapid in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park’s Little Caledon River
We’re catching up on the WordPress Photo Challenges we missed while on our extended summer holidays in the bush. “Twinkle” was the theme for the challenge of 12/12/2014
We arrived back home in Pretoria after our epic 21-night summer holiday in the bush. We’ll soon start wrapping up with a weekly trip report of the beautiful wild places we visited. Today we’re simply compiling a gallery of the photos we posted on a daily basis while we were away.
Lovely sunshine here at Golden Gate Highlands National Park today
2015 dawns over Glen Reenen Rest Camp in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.
Happy New Year everybody!
We couldn’t think of a better way to see out 2014 than by scaling the Brandwag Buttress in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park
The Brandwag Buttress
View of the Golden Gate Hotel & Chalets and the road to the small town of Clarens from the top of Brandwag this misty morning
Looking back at the fantastic places we stayed at while exploring South Africa’s wild places in 2014…
