I don't think that you can go on any trip and not be astounded along the way by the absolute beauty of nature, it is just perfect................. there is just no other word it is just perfect........ everything has its perfect timing , a time of birth as the seed breaks through the soil and feels the sunshine for the first time, a time of growth as it stretches and experiments with roots, branches and leaves, pushing itself to the maximum...... a time of beauty as the blossoms, fruits and leaves break free and show nature what they are made off..... and the end when there is only the trunk left which has its only kind of beauty............ much like our lives .............Who taught the sun where to rise in the morning, who told the ocean it can only come so far, and who told the moon where to hide till evening, whose hand alone can catch a falling star. My Redeemer lives.
In going to the Kruger Park we had to go through some very different types of terrain, you never knew what was going to be around the next corner or over the next hill, an old delapidated building, a beautiful Victorian manor, an old rusted steel railway bridge standing proudly over a flooding river, proof that they did make things to last in bygone eras.
We travelled through the flat farm lands of the Highveld mealie fields, kilometer after kilometer of nothing but mealie fields stretching as far as the eye can see, row after row after row, hynotising you, there was no signs of life , no farm houses no people, just mealies..............
We travelled through the pine plantations standing tall and strong like row upon row of soldiers guarding some hidden secret, standing in perfect formation, line and line never one out of place, never one not exactly the same, bursting with stories of tales they can never share.............
Then the beautiful hills of the Mpungalanga region, hills that never seem to end, turning left, turning right, ever higher, ears popping with the pressure as you go ever upward and just when you think you have reached the top, you go over the crest and plunge downwards into the valleys, like a roller coaster ride, leaving your stomach far behind and praying that it will catch up sooner or later, the valleys are filled with fertile lands, full of banana, paw paw, sugar, avocado and nut plantations. each having its own special beauty................ much like our lives, the barren times, the roller coaster times, the fertile valley times................
I loved the names of the places to stay along the way The Victorian, The Dawson, Royal Sheba Hotel, Baberton Manor, The Fountain Bath Lodge, The Creaking Inn.............
My favourite memory of this trip was the rainbow, as we came over the crest of one hill the valley below was shrouded in a rainbow, not your normal rainbow which is up in the sky, this rainbow was covering the little town nestled in the valley, like protection, like a shield of love , like a blanket of hope............ much like we need sometimes....................
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