Gandimi

Well this is the first post for the new year, and hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and new year!

Saturday 21 January
Number of participants: 16
Meeting Point: Tree Tops restaurant
Leader: Annadore Smith


we left treetops restaurant at 13:30 and the trip to gandimi was about a 30min drive out on the shamva road and then turned left at a small shop, which changes to dirt road. We proceeded to take this road for about 5 - 10 min and arrived at our starting point.

Our Starting point

 After getting our things together, we then proceeded up the mountainside. The walk up to the cave was quite steep. Once arriving at the cave we discovered some bush man paintings, with elephant, kudu, and people. They were not very prominent and one had to really look to see them as they were very faded, and the main was was drawn right underneath the place where the water ran down from the above rock.

After the small break there, we proceeded to make our way to the summit of Gandidmi. This part of the walk was very steep so it was slow going from the cave on out. After a lot of huffing and puffing, we reached a view point which was close to the summit.

Close to the summit

View over farm lands

 We then continued onto the summit. Once there we enjoyed the view and watched the rain pour down in a different area. We were a bit worried that we would get wet, as the storm was blowing our way, but it seemed to miss us as we were on our way back down.

Summit beacon