By: Duane Stacey Additional reporting: Ilse Van Den Berg
TRAVEL XXX
A GRAND TIME in GRASKOP
day, might even allow you to see all the way to Mozambique. By the sounds of the locals, Graskop is mostly considered a convenient overnight stop for international tourists who are itching to go and spot their first elephant in the Kruger National Park. But when they get there and discover the beauty that surrounds their one-night-only Bed & Breakfast, they are all too often dismayed. Their package
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holiday didn’t make mention ne afternoon in
Nestled in the shadow of
deceiving. Graskop literally
of this place...What a pity.
April 2022, with
Mount Sheba on the one
means “grassy hill” but, in
We checked in at Autumn
the car loaded to
side, and towering out
actual fact, the town is much
Breeze guesthouse – the only
the roof, we said goodbye to
above the Lowveld on the
more than that. It is perched
guesthouse in town with an
Mbombela and hit the road
other side, Graskop is never
1 400 meters (m) above sea
indoor pool – and with this
in a north-western direction.
truly on anyone’s bucket
level, is magnificently green
little Plain Jane town as our
The destination? Graskop.
list. I think the name itself is
and lush and on a crisp clear
hub for a couple of days, the
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