InterNations Pretoria: the Great Trek. A Day Trip.

A visit to Voortrekkermonument is always a special place with the height and views of Pretoria.

Built to last after the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, Germany, it commemorates the Great Trek of 23,000 European originating settlers, workers and thousands of livestock leaving the Cape Colony over a decade from 1835 on oxwagons at a pace that sheep can walk at 5km a day in a peaceful search of a new home.

In this time they entered the South African wilderness facing wild animals, hostile and friendly tribes and a fight for survival with the elements, trekking with oxwagons across the icy and snowy mountains of the Drakensberg to malaria-infested Lorenço Marques - today in Mozambique.

I am organising a guided tour on the 9th August. PM me if you would like to join and prepayment is required by the 1st August.

We'll do the tour and then break for a traditional lunch and we can then go to the various gardens and village arrangements to see how the first settlers lived whilst voyaging through the greater Southern Africa terrain 200 years ago.
We can make a day of it. There is also a miniature train exhibit.

Usually on the 9th August Women visit the Museum free which is the same for the Freedom Park museum, which is also worth a visit.