Panorama Portfolio Map Mariepskop 1944m Blyderivierspoort Dam Blydepoort Trails (2 to 5km) The Resort has 3 well laid out walks The Blyderivierpoort Dam was completed in 1974 in order to stabilize the water between 2 and 5km. These are the supply to the irrigators of the Blyde River Irrigation district and to provide additional Kadishi, Leopard and Guinea Fowl trails. water for the mining and industry at Phalaborwa. Drakensberg R532 Blyde Canyon, Mountains A Forever Resort View point of Three Rondawels The Three Rondavels resembles thatched huts. The Pedi Tribe named the three hills Road via the after three wives of the Pulana Tribe Chief, Maripi Mashile who conquered the Swazi Abel Erasmus Tribe. The tall peak behind them was called Mapjareng, also named after Maripi; meaning Pass to Hoedspruit ‘The Chief’. Lowveld View Stunning views of the Lowveld beyond, N GreaterKruger.co.za Blyde River Canyon and the Blyde Dam. Accommodation & Safari Bookings Copy Right © 2020 Gerhard Brummer www.greaterkruger.co.za W E No part of this map shall be copied in any way or means without the permission of the copy right holder. Blyde River Canyon Airlink connects you to Hoedspruit, Skukuza Airport and Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport with convenient flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town. To book visit: www.flyairlink.com S Nature Reserve Drie Susters 1704m Scotland Hill The Potholes was named after Bernard Thomas 1736m Bourke, known as Tom, together with his brother Old Belvedere Hydro owned the company Bourke & Co., which fitted Electric Power Station out prospecting parties and other general dealings, such as buying property. He was a keen prospector Digi Falls and bought farms in the area and formed the Bourke’s Devil’s Window Luck Mining Company (1908). 1771m Bourke’s Luck Belvedere Day Walk (10km) . Potholes The walk starts at Bourke’s Luck and ends in the Blyder River Canyon at the old Belvedere Hydro Granite Hill Electric Power Station. In 1911 it was the largest hydro electric power station in the Southern 1581m Hemisphere. It provided Pilgrim’s Rest and adjacent communities with electricity. Pilgrim’s Rest was the second town in South Africa, besides Kimberley, with street electricity. Most satisfying walk in the region and rated moderately difficult. Tell: 013 753 3115 Blyde River Treur River potluck boskombuis Mapasebone New Chum Falls * Taste true South African ‘soul’ food 1857m * Have a chilling swim in the pools Maragise Vaalhoek * Do NOT miss out on this unique experience Walking Trails: 1611m * Experience a 2.5km walking trail to the Fann Falls Caspersnek Hiking trails vary from easy walks to grueling hikes over several days. Day Walks: Forest Fall Nature Walk; Secretary Bird Walk; Loerie Trail; Misty Mountain Trail. Morgenzon Permits for day walks are available Nature Reserve at the Forestry Museum in Sabie. Overnight Hikes: 77km Hartebeesvlakte 2 Nights Trail Bonnet/MacMac Pools 2 Days Trail Bridal Veil 2 Nights Trail Maritzbos Circular 3 Nights Trail Fanie Botha 3 Days Trail Pilgrim’s Rest Experience: . R532 Mount Moodie 4 Nights Trail Keep your gold when Gold Panning as a ‘digger’ Fanie Botha 5 Nights Trail at the Diggings Museum. This is a 5-hour, all ages, Prospector’s Hiking Trail ranging tour that also includes a welcome drink, daily from 2- to 4 Nights Trails. glimpse of a mine managers life and a game of The Peak Bookings can only be made croquet. Bookings: 013 764 1177 / 013 767 1886 1832m with Komatiland. Book in advance! Golfing at Pilgrim’s Rest 9-hole Golf Course with its Tel: 013 754 2724 or [email protected] sandstone club house (constructed from the Blyde River material of a school in Rustenburg - each stone 28km was numbered and brought here for re-construction). Important note: The distance between Graskop and Bourke’s Luck Potholes Overnight Hikes in the region to be booked with Almost all the attractions in the region Komatiland on 013 754 2724. These are: is 37km * Peach Tree Creek Circular (21km, 2 nights) require an entrance fee. Please do have * Black Hill (44km, 2 nights) . cash available. Waterfall River * Prospector’s/Morgenzon (57km, 4 nights) Berlin Falls * Peach Creek (21km, 1 night) . Lisbon River Berlin Creek (45m fall) God’s Window, with a sheer drop of 2000 feet, was named so by Crystal Springs Black Hill the Surveyor General Mr. C. Jeppe (around 1902 - 1910). The Nature Reserve 2097m Pinnacle was also first known as Jeppe’s Tower. During this time Pilgrim’s Rest was officially proclaimed Mr. C. Jeppe worked as far as Devil’s Window and it is accepted Mantshibi a Gold Field on 22 September 1873. There that he named this place. Devil’s Window has a sheer cliff Pilgrim’s Creek, one of the first gold Rowersklippe were close to 1500 diggers working about straight down, which ‘almost pulls you into the depths’. panning sites in Pilgrim’s Rest where 1767m 4000 claims in the Pilgrim’s Creek area. Alec ‘Wheelbarrow’ Patterson struck Lisbon Falls Gorge Drie Koppe eddles it rich. He pushed his wheelbarrow (92m fall) H all the way from the Cape. (1600km) 1658m Delver’s Creek C lew Wonder View er Va Robbers R533 lle Pass y God’s Window 26km to the R36 & Golf Course Lisbon Creek From the parking bay there’s a steep Mullersebergpas walkway to the actual view site. You 50km to Mashishing 16km walk throug a fantastic rain forest & Old Gold Mines there’s various hand-made artwork for sale. Pilgrim’s Rest Joubert Bridge 1896 The Vine Restaurant & Pub Pilgrim’s Creek Road to Driekop Caves The Pinnacle Robbers Grave Royal Hotel & Bar (not open to the public) Ngwaritsane 1476m Digging Site Museum The Pinnacle The Pinnacle is a 30m free- & Gold Panning standing quartzite buttress. 12km Old Gold Mines Brown’s Hill Jubilee Graskop Bluff 1795 Jock of the Bushveld/Fairyland Walking Trail (8km) Ga-Sekubu The Bonnet 1556m 17km Graskop Starts and finishes at the Graskop Holiday Resort. Walk to Mount Sheba 1655m 1463m 1958m Graskop Holiday Resort the edge of the escarpment overlooking the Pinnacle Gorge. Mount Sheba, See weirdly shaped rocks. A Forever Lodge Stanley Bush Kop 1808m 13.6km Graskop Hut The Big Swing Blyde River Graskop Gorge Lift (51 m) Restaurants in Graskop A 26-passenger viewing elevator travelling 51m * Summit Lodge Restaurant Premier forest-birding location. down a cliff forest. Suspension bridges, interactive An excellent network of walking * Canimambo Restaurant exhibits, 500m forest trails, streams and waterfall. trails provide good access to the * Harrie’s Pancakes forest and bird watching opportunities. Burgers Pass R533 Graskop River Mac Mac River Grootfonteinspruit Kowyn’s 35km to Hazyview & 60km to the Maria Shires (Born Taylor) 1814-1875 Forest Falls Pass 13km Kruger National Park was the mother of Joseph Shires who pioneered forestry in the Sabie region. Her grave lies close to the falls. Her son in law, Tom McLachlan together with Maria Shires Falls Sunlight River Mac Mac Hut James Sutherland and Edward Buttons 23.1km walk between 6km Mount Sheba discovered the first gold near Spitskop the Graskop Hut and on the 6th February 1873. Pres. Burgers Hut Pres. Burgers Hut Nature Reserve Mauchsberg Mac Mac Falls Mac Mac River 2115m The Mauchsberg Mountain was named after Karel Gottlieb Mauch (1837-1875), 16.3km walk from the Stables Hut to the Mac Mac Hut a German explorer and geographer of Africa. He had prophecies about the Swimming is allowed at the Mac Mac presence of Gold through the escarpment below the Drakensberg Range of Mac Mac Pools Pools with its crystal but cold water. the old Transvaal. Pioneers and eager prospectors like Button, Sutherland, 29km Braai and picnic site available as well McLachlan and George Parsons took his predictions very seriously. as a 3km Secretary Bird walking trail. Mount Moodie was named after George P. Moodie Kruger National Park (1829-1891), a surveyor, who assisted Karel Mauch The first gold rush site in SA, in 1873 near Graskop, was in surveying the Long Tom Pass in 1870 and founder named the New Caledonian Gold Fields by President of Moodie’s Gold Mining and Exploration Company. Burgers, who also referred to the area, in a joking manner, Moodie’s Reef briefly became the most important as ‘MacMac’ - he noticed that so many of the diggers’ goldfield in South Africa early in 1884. names started with ‘Mac’ and ‘Mc’. Klipkraal Pools Mount Moodie 2072m Railway Line R532 Restaurants and Pubs in Sabie: * Loggerhead Restaurant Tanamera * The Woodman’s Pub & Restaurant Klein Sabie River * The Wild Fig Tree Restaurant Lodge Photo: Robert de la Harpe * Smokey Train Diner Restaurant * Jock’s Pub and Restaurant Bergvliet Pass Elna Falls 10.4km walk from the Stables Hut R536 The Big Swing back to Ceylon Hut 43km to Hazyview & Bridal Veil Falls Sabie Sabie River 60km to the Sabie Falls 43km 13.3km walk from Maritzbos Kruger National Park Hut to the Stables Hut 750m Walk to (73m fall) the Bridal Veil Falls Sabie River Malieveldspruit Ceylon Forest Station Ceylon Hut Forestry Museum on 7th Avenue Maritzbos Hut 8.7km Sabie Self Catering Porcupine Ridge The town of Sabie derives its name from the Shangaan Guest House Lone Creek Falls Fanie Botha Golf Apartments word ‘uluSaba’ meaning ‘the river of fear’ due to all the crocodiles found when the river was in flood. (68m fall) Hiking Trail Course ad Ro rg Fig Tree Plateau bu en yd In 1871, during a hunting expedition led by Henry Thomas Lake Olaf d L Ol Glynn, a stray bullet chipped a rock in the area and revealed a rich gold reef which started the gold rush into the area.