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Graskop

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Country
  
District
  
Established
  
1880

Area code
  
013

Province
  
Municipality
  
Elevation
  
1,436 m (4,711 ft)

Local time
  
Saturday 5:55 PM

Graskop wwwgraskopcozaimagespinnaclesmalljpg

Weather
  
21°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 64% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Blyde River Canyon Nature R, Mac‑Mac Falls, Berlin Falls, Lone Creek Falls

Graskop is a small town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It was set up in the 1880s as a gold mining camp but it now serves as a tourist destination and the timber industry. The name is Afrikaans for grassy peak. “God’s Window”, a scenic view from the escarpment of the Lowveld below, is located outside the town.

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Map of Graskop, 1270, South Africa

Town 14 km south-east of Pilgrim's Rest and 28 km north of Sabie. It was laid out between 1880 and 1890 on a farm belonging to Abel Erasmus, Native Commissioner of the Transvaal Republic. Named after a grassy hillock (Afrikaans gras, ‘grass’, kop, ‘hillock’). Originally it was a mining camp. It is the best place to view the "Edge of the Lowveld", with a sudden drop of 700 metres.

Lisbon falls graskop south africa


References

Graskop Wikipedia


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