So I promised at the beginning of the week that my blog would consist of three posts about my experience in Bulwer, however this week has been more exciting than I had anticipated. So now I'm just getting around to talking about what we did on our off days in Bulwer.
Our first off day that we had was the Monday after our first service. For this day we decided that we would go and explore the Sani Pass which is a route that leads through the Drakensburg mountain into Lesotho. Lesotho is a country that is completely surrounded by South Africa much like how the Vatican is surrounded by Italy. We got about 7 miles away from Lesotho and were told that we would need a 4x4 in order to drive into Lesotho because the roads were so bad. So instead of going to Lesotho we went hiking near up to the summit of one of the foothills, which is still probably as high as some of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but don't hold me to that because I'm bad at judging distance. We had a beautiful view at the top, after a tough, very steep climb.
Our next day off we went to the Marutswa Forest, which is a natural forest in Bulwer. We hiked through the forest which was very beautiful. The following day off, we went to a hotel that claimed to be haunted, and had even had the discovery channel come out and do a show on it. Our trip wasn't to see the hotel however, but rather to see the history behind it. After another hour and a half hike we arrived at a site of some Bushmen paintings, located in a rocky overpass. The paintings were painting by some of the original tribal people of South Africa and were painted somewhere between 1,500 to 6,000 years ago. It was very exciting to see. Finally on our last day off, we took another hike behind the hotel which ended up being a 4 hour hike which at some points I'm not sure we were still on the trail. All of these trips were great experiences, because we really got to take in the beautiful landscape of South Africa. I'm on such a roll that I think I might go ahead and type my final post on Bulwer now. God Bless.
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