The last week off

Bed for three nights

This past week was the final week off I had here on the coarse, I left with 4 other students and met up with one of the instructors who took us out to a very secluded camping spot up on a expansive rock plateau about 6 hours away. The place was called Makgabeng and has several cave walls that have been painted on by local tribes over the past.

Red paintings-before European settlers

We arrived late after the sun had set and had to wander around finding a place to sleep while setting up camp in the dark. The next day we wandered around toward the long gorge that cut through the labyrinth of razor sharp rocks, and after that it got even better… we found some white cave art, this art is 200 or less years old and it depicts scenes 

from the tribes during what is called the ‘boer wars’, this was the great expansion of South Africa when those of European decent turned deeper into the continent to escape the British rule (aka: the boers). 

view from the top

We returned to camp after several hours and had a nice Braai (BBQ) on the campfire. The next day we wondered towards the nearest mountain and explored a few more art caves before making our way to the top through the pathless passes of fallen boulders and sheer cliffs. We did it in a pretty short 3 hours even though half the company had (previous) leg injurys and the instructors young daughter scampered up ahead of us.

The moon and Venus

Since we where up on a flat place miles from the nearest civilization with 0 light polution I decided to try out some night/evening photogrophy and got a few good shots, not great but good, including this one which by chance happened to catch a shooting star zip between my rock arch and Venus