March 3
On Sunday we went to Kaapschoop, a wee settlement close-ish to the Sappi Ngodwana mill, where Andrew had spent his first week when he arrived last December. It's about 20 mins from Nelspruit. The place was an old mining town and appears to be caught it a time warp. This was the site of South Africa's first gold rush in the 1880s but this site didn't come to much. However the locals like it because it's 1600 m altitude so cooler than down in Nelspruit which is about 900 m.
We saw the wild horses, left when the British pulled out some time after the Boer War. They wander freely through the town, in the forest and on top of the escarpment. Much more visible than the Kaimanawa horses which I have never seen. We took a walk to the top of the escarpment through some amazing rock formations. We hoped to track down Adams Calendar, a stone circle thought to predate Stonehenge and the pyramids. When we asked a local she proceed to tell us all about the ghosts and apparitions she has seen, but thought the stone circle was just a hoax. Think we might ask someone else in town about the stone circles.
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