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Tourists posing with the Long Tom cannon at Long Tom Pass in current Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Afrikaans: Geen reis na Oos-Transvaal is afgehandel sonder 'n verposing aan die bopunt van Long Tompas nie. Die uitsig oor die omliggende heuwels was skouspelagtig en die parkeerterrein vol Zoeloe-vroue wat wonderlike seepsteenware en been- en houtsneewerk verkoop het. Ek onthou omdat ons nooit vertrek het sonder om iets te koop nie. Die dorpie Lydenburg lê agter Amy se regterskouer. Ek dink nie ons het ooit in Lydenburg gestop nie, maar dit het altyd die begin en einde van die vakansienaweek aangedui. Daarvoor en daarná was die 200 myl reguit skof met die N3 langs terug na Jo'burg. Hierdie halte was op pad huis toe na 'n langnaweek by Pelgrimsrus en God's Window. Ek wou my ma saamneem om nie net hierdie pragtige plekke te sien nie, maar ook om die dorpsbegraafplaas te besoek wat hoofsaaklik die stoflike oorskot hou van etlike Walliese mynwerkers wat hul herkoms het uit die valleie van die omgewing waar my ma gebore is. Ek dink hierdie mynwerkers het eerder goud gesoek as die steenkool wat baie meer algemeen in hierdie deel van Transvaal voorkom. Ek dink nie hulle het veel gevind nie alhoewel die dorp nog baie lyk soos dit in sy bloeitydperk as 'n mynnedersetting gelyk het. Van die uitkykpunt by die nabygeleë God's Window kry jy asemrowende uitsigte oor die laeveld.
English: No trip to the Eastern Transvaal was complete without a stop at the top of Long Tom Pass. The view over the surrounding hills was spectacular and the car park was full of Zulu women selling wonderful soapstone pottery and objects carved out of wood and bone. I know because we never left without buying something. The town of Lydenburg lies behind Amy's right shoulder. I don't think we ever stopped there but it always signified the start and end of the holiday weekend. Before and after this was the 200-mile straight slog along the N3 back to Jo'burg. This stop was on the way home from a long weekend spent at Pilgrims Rest and God's Window. I wanted to take my Mum to see, not just these beautiful places, but also to visit the graveyard in the town which was mainly populated with the remains of many Welsh miners from the valleys near where my mother was born. I think these miners were looking for gold rather than the coal which is much more common in this part of the Transvaal. I don't think they found much though the town still looks much as it did in its heyday as a mining settlement. From the viewpoint of nearby God's Window, you get stunning views of the whole of the Kruger National Park. |
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| Source | Lydenburg - Long Tom Pass - Aug 1994 - Family Photo |
| Author | Gareth Williams from Redhill, England |
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