It was Sunday in Eswatini and what to do. ‘Head for the hills’ as the saying goes.
Always looking for a weekend experience we headed for the hills.
We took an hour drive into the countryside with our picnic of two eggs, chips, grapes, Tuna sandwiches and water. My husband was not too sure about how he would manage to do the walk with his rickety knees and me with my compromised neck after surgery nine months ago, yet we continued to challenge ourselves.
What a relaxed and warm afternoon it turned out to be. Encouraged by the magnificent scenery I googled about the Barberton mountains which can be seen in the distance. The Barberton range is recognised as being 3.2 to 3.6 billion years old. It really is mind blowing to sit on the bench, within the safety of our present world and ponder about that amount of time back, and yet we can see it with our own eyes.
The picnic bench and view of the mountains
Those mountains have been added to the World Heritage Site list, as they’re the oldest surface rocks and contain signs of life with a micro fossil of bacteria discovered there, that is estimated to be 3.1 billion years old. I must go back there now with my pick and shovel, as legend has it that the amount of gold found in the Golden Quarry was so large that miners had to extract rock from gold instead of the other way around. Surely there is some left for me.
A winter landscape
