Graskop lift and Gorge Company

We had both had a pretty bad nights sleep, with my coughing and Ellie being sick so when we got up to a thick mist at 6:30am we just decided to have a chill day and relax.
Ellie didn’t want to be to far away from a bathroom as she still felt queesy but we did pop out to the local shops to stock up on our food supplies and we managed to get an in-line on/ off valve for the gas bottle.
We got back home about 11am and then had a light lunch of Gnu toasties and then I fitted the in-line valve so I don’t have to keep getting under the trailer to turn the gas on and off.
Around 1pm we thought we would brave going into the Graskop gorge next door to the campsite so we drove the 5 minutes to the car park and paid our £5 each to get in.
It is actually called the Graskop gorge and lift company and to enter the gorge we had to descend 400ft to the base of the gorge below and here there is a real tropical rain forest. From the very top of the gorge a waterfall pours downs into a pool that runs off into little streams feeding the plants and trees.
As we excited the lift we entered a boardwalk that runs a circular route around the base of the gorge running for about half a mile with information boards telling us about the plants, trees and animals that live in this very diverse rain forest.
There is also a cliff walk that we were to scared to attempt and even a zip wire, also not our thing.
We got back to camp around 3pm and there were new campers nearby and they were Scottish and asked to look around our setup. We were pleased that they were impressed and finally we no longer feel like the poor tourists. They stayed looking around for about an hour.
After showing the neighbours around we spent the rest of the day chilling and just before bedtime we put the awning away so it wasn’t dripping with dew when we got up. We also realised the fridge had been freaking out when it was on the trailer battery because the trailer battery seems quite knackered.Read more