Raw excitement and anticipation for the impending adventure brimmed over in me. And boy, was it worth all the hype! I was not disappointed in my very first Bush Run and I’m already counting the sleeps until the next one.
Located around 12km southwest of Volksrust in the transitional region between the Highveld Grasslands and the northern reaches of the beautiful Drakensburg Mountain Range, the three provinces of Mpumalanga, the Free State, and KwaZulu-Natal converge and meet at a height of 2 200m in an area locally known as the “Versamelberge”.
Throughout the day and into the evening on the first day of our adventure, 14 Land Rovers from four different provinces – each carrying a cargo of avid adventurers, allweather camping equipment and loaded toolboxes – ambled their