Lunch at Kaapsehoop , followed by a military leopard-crawling wild-horse-capture operation . The history behind the Kaapsehoop wild horses has been lost in time , though it is assumed that they escaped , or where left behind during the earlier Boer wars .
Selfie !!!
So , let me spend some time trying to give you more information on the Mpumalanga stone circles including one called Adam ’ s calendar .
In the area around Waterval Boven there are numerous circular stone relics . Historians used to classify these as old Bantu cattle kraals and they were never considered as anything significant . Until …
Johan Heine ( a fire fighting pilot ) went on a rescue mission in 2003 on the escarpment close to Kaapsehoop . While they were busy saving another pilot he saw some boulders that drew his attention . He took a walk over to these upright monoliths and realized that it was an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar ( much like Stonehenge ). It was then that he also started questioning the ‘ cattle kraal ’ that was more visible to him from up in the sky . From up there he could admire the full expanse of these circles and knew that these were far more than just a few kraals . These ruins span an area of around 60km in radius !
We were near the end of day two and yet had not found any ruins , stone circles , or aliens . I had five GPS co-ordinates to some of the ruins , though most of them were on private property – not that THAT has ever stopped us . There were maybe a few minutes left in this day to try and find the ruins close to Badplaas . We clicked GO