Photos

The Blyde River Canyon reminds me that famous classic movie "how green was my valley".

Actually, this is not really a valley, but rather a gorgeus set of gorges!

And here is a brief intro for Blyde River Canyon from my small guidebook which led me to there-
At the very edge of Drakensburg, a world of spectacular and rugged cliffs falls dramatically to the Lowveld, some 100 meters below. The Eastern
escarpment of Mpumalanga Province is a breathtakingly beautiful landscape of solid butterness and deep gorges, where tranquillity reigns.

During the winter of 1840, in the days of the Voortrekkers, leader Hendrik Potgieter led an exploration to the Portuguese port of Lourenço Marques, today known as Maputo. Camped on the summit of the Drakensburg, the womenfolk awaited the return of the party. When days and weeks passed and there was no sign of the men, the women concluded that their loved ones had met their deaths, and named the stream on whose banks they were camped, the Treur (sorrow). As they headed homeword, they were reunited with Potgieter and his party. The joy of reunion prompted the naming of the nearby river, Blyde (joy).