City to rural

This morning we left Johannesburg and headed East on the N12.  The initial flat surroundings changed spectacularly at Waterval Boven where the Drekansberg escarpment’s last edge gives way to the lowlying areas that’s known as the Lowveld.  At Nelspruit we stocked up for food and then headed north, parallel with the Kruger National Park border through Hazyview and past Acornhoek in the Busch Buck Ridge Subdistrict of Mpumalanga.  The winding road leads through valleys and around hills and it never stopped raining from Johannesburg until when we arrived at the Wits Rural Facility.  Striking was the densely populated rural areas around Bush Buck Ridge town where tiny to large brick houses stretch towards the horizon as far as the eye can see…

At the Wits Rural Facility we were welcomed by Olivera and helped to find the Bushcamp by Bethuel.  Wits Rural Facility is on a game farm on the road to the Orpen gate of the Kruger Park.  On the way to the bush camp we saw 3 giraffe and on arrival 5 around 50 impala were grazing on the grass in front of the thatched huts.  The evening bush sounds were magical and it felt like we have arrived at a holiday destination.