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The Mountain is a space which attracts creatives, adventurers, conservationists, dreamers and doers. We are grateful to have the opportunity to be a voice for this unique community through the Mountain Getaways Visitors’ Guide, quarterly Magazine and this Website which serves to remind us once again how privileged we are to be able to spend time in Magoebaskloof where there are mountains instead of malls, spectacular views rather than parkades and silence to replace the sounds of the city.
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
OF BAT HAWKS AND BIRD GUIDES IN MAGOEBASKLOOF
‘Stop right here,’ he said, with a sharp and urgent tone. We were somewhere close to New Agatha, not far from the tar road, but I...
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Cath Green
Feb 22, 20233 min read
MAGIC AND MIST - THE MAGOEBASKLOOF HIKING TRAIL
After driving through the green and ochre landscape of Tzaneen, we dipped into the thick pine forests of Magoebaskloof, excited to start...
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Thabiso Sekhula
Feb 22, 20232 min read
LIMPOPO’S AMAZING RACE
In an epic showdown around Magoebaskloof, 9 teams of two became the first participants of the first Limpopo Amazing Race held on 23 April...
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Bridget Hilton-Barber
Feb 22, 20233 min read
FOOD FOR THE SOUL - 6 SIGNATURE WINTER FOOD EXPERIENCES IN MAGOEBASKLOOF
This winter’s food flavours are set to be warm and spicy as mountain temperatures drop to a daily average of around ten degrees, with...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20234 min read
VILLAGE LIFE IN THE HAMLET OF HAENERTSBURG
Tucked into the embrace of the Wolkberg mountains on the edge of the Great Escarpment in Limpopo, lies the quaint village of...
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Mara Hermann
Feb 22, 20233 min read
LOOKING BACK… MOVING ON - THE MOUNTAIN GETAWAYS MAGAZINE
Paging through some of the earlier editions of the Mountain Getaways I came across an article entitled “Of days gone by”. It was a story...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20233 min read
ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT… ROWING CLUB @ EBENEZER DAM
According to the Haenertsburg Rowing Club Founder, Valentine Blacking, the Ebenezer Dam probably has some of the best water in South...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20231 min read
EXPERIENCE MAGOEBASKLOOF
When the rain clouds roll in and the heavens open up...when the air fills with the smell of soaked earth I take a breath and...
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Laurie Railton
Feb 22, 20232 min read
WALKING IN WOODBUSH
Laurie Railton is a member of The Thursday Hiking Group of Magoebaskloof which has been going for over 40 years, initially led by Secundo...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20232 min read
GO HIKING IN MAGOEBASKLOOF
Take your heart for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees.... of time and space and all that is timeless....
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20231 min read
HAENERTSBURG FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL 2022
This annual event provides a fun experience for young and old. On Saturday, 30 April and Sunday, 1 May 2022, the quaint village of...
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Laaika Moosa
Feb 22, 20232 min read
FIRE & SPICE WITH LAAIKSFOOD
My food journey started by watching my mother, Zeiboon, a well known cook in the Tzaneen community, spend hours in the kitchen. It was...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20231 min read
CHEERIO ROAD FOREVER...
Like the Strawberry Fields of the iconic Beatles song, Cheerio Road is an enchanted place, a song in your heart…. Hidden in the heart of...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 22, 20232 min read
FIND ADVENTURE ALONG ROUTE 71
There are a million reasons to fall in love with Limpopo, along Route 71… there is something for everyone, from young couples or...
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Bronwyn Egan
Feb 22, 20232 min read
PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS OF LIMPOPO PROVINCE
“Got it! Streptocarpus galpinii!” Thanks to Sylvie Kremer-Khone’s new book, the small blue flower with a velvet leaf is a mystery no...
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Marloe Scott Wilson
Feb 22, 20232 min read
REFLECTIONS IN MY MOUNTAIN GARDEN
As I walk around my gardens here in Haenertsburg, high in the Drakensberg mountains of Limpopo, I see how far we’ve come in nearly nine...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 13, 20232 min read
STOP OFF AT STELLA’S FARM DELI ON ROUTE 71
Emmual and Hester Human moved to ‘The Mountain’ from Singapore in 2017. Emmual grew up in Tzaneen and his family farm is in the Georges...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 13, 20232 min read
A TASTE OF PARADISE SCOOPED FROM LIMPOPO
Tzaneen is known as a ‘tropical paradise’, producing a variety of fruits and other products in abundance... avocados, granadillas,...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 13, 20233 min read
SENSATIONAL SUMMERTIME AT THE WATERWHEEL COUNTRY RETREAT
You know that beautiful screensaver you have? ... The one where the sun is setting in a blaze of colour reflecting the sky in the...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 12, 20232 min read
10 THINGS TO DO ALONG ROUTE 71
Stretching from Polokwane, the gateway to the area, Route-71 makes for a spectacular road trip starting with the scenic escarpment of the...
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James Woodhouse
Feb 12, 20235 min read
UNCOVERING 007
“As for me, my first memory of any significance is of a brilliant spring morning in Louis Trichardt. It had rained in the night, but now...
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Lisa Martus
Feb 10, 20233 min read
A NEW CHAPTER FOR COPPERWING
Everyone agrees that Copperwing Guesthouse, nestled on a hill just a kilometre from the village of Haenertsburg is a relaxing retreat for...
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Feb 10, 20233 min read
STRIKING GOLD AT THE PENNEFATHER
High up in the hills, the sound of distant picks and shovels reverberates in an almost musical, if frenetic rhythm. The sharp ping-ping...
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Feb 10, 20233 min read
HAENERTSBURG IN THE LAND OF THE SILVER MIST
From the research of Professor Louis Changuion PART ONE ‘The Mountain’, has been described as the region ‘where the Wolkberg Massif...
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WHERE TO STAY...
One of our favourite places to stay on the Mountain is Bramasole Guesthouse….find out why..
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