famous road
Panorama Route
Mpumalanga's classic escarpment drive on the R532 linking God's Window, Bourke's Luck Potholes and Blyde River Canyon: waterfalls and viewpoints strung along the Drakensberg edge.
9 km · about 15 min drive
Mpumalanga, South Africa · Africa
Pilgrim’s Rest is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Graskop, 9km from Panorama Route.
Pilgrim’s Rest is a town located in Mpumalanga, South Africa. With a population of 2,061, it is an important destination in Africa.
On a road trip, Pilgrim’s Rest sits in South Africa, where you drive on the left. It's in the Africa/Johannesburg time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Pilgrim’s Rest to your route.
Pilgrim's Rest (Afrikaans: Pelgrimsrus) is a small museum town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa which is protected as a provincial heritage site. It was the second of the Transvaal gold fields, attracting a rush of prospectors in 1873, soon after the MacMac diggings started some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) away.Read more
Alluvial panning eventually gave way to deeper ore mining. In the 1970s the town, not greatly changed, became a tourist destination.
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Pilgrim’s Rest is located in Mpumalanga, South Africa, Africa. The coordinates are -24.9050 latitude, 30.7533 longitude.
Pilgrim’s Rest has a population of approximately 2,061 people, making it a town in South Africa.
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famous road
Mpumalanga's classic escarpment drive on the R532 linking God's Window, Bourke's Luck Potholes and Blyde River Canyon: waterfalls and viewpoints strung along the Drakensberg edge.
9 km · about 15 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A cliff-edge viewpoint on South Africa's Panorama Route, looking down 700 metres to the lush Lowveld and across to the distant Drakensberg escarpment.
14 km · about 25 min drive
mountain pass
The R37 crosses the Mpumalanga escarpment at 2,150 m, named after the Boer siege guns fired from here in 1900. Long fast sweepers give huge views down the Lowveld, and gun-position markers sit beside the road.
30 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
Swirling cylindrical rock pools scoured into yellow sandstone where the Treur River meets the Blyde, linked by footbridges just off the R532 Panorama Route. Named for a prospector who correctly predicted gold nearby.
35 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Three massive round rock formations resembling traditional huts, overlooking the third largest canyon in the world along South Africa's Panorama Route.
36 km · about 40 min drive
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