40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. ― Brigham Young Another great day to escape the office and head into the outdoors. We travelled across to the Amazizi Village for our […]
40 days – 40 hikes – Walking 4 Education Education is the movement from darkness to light . ~ Allan Bloom Temperatures had dropped a little but we awoke to clear skies. We met our hikers on the front lawn, handed out the lunch packs, and began our walk through the Fern Forest, along Bushbuck
40 Days ~ 40 Hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Here’s to 20 years of Democracy! A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ~ Nelson Mandela We rose bright and early to do our Sunday
40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ W.B. Yeats This morning we joined the walk to Jackal Hill and the Silent Woman. This is a lovely, relatively easy walk through the Fern Forest and then along Bushbuck Ridge
40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ~ C.S. Lewis We woke to a bright and sunny start at Thendele and the mountain was so close. There can’t be many places where you wake up in absolute
40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page ~ Augustine of Hippo We were sad to leave the mountain and Witsies but what a treat to descend gradually through the Mahai valley. First the high grassy hills, then sandstone
40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi We woke early at Witsies and had a quick breakfast and we then met our hiking companions who’d taken a drive round. The road is paved to Witsieshoek
40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle We departed from the Cavern at 11am and hiked up Sugar Loaf Gap, behind Sugar Loaf and onto Cold Hill. It was a steep climb and our small group, Hilton, Olivia (10), Noah
The 40 Series ~ 40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn ~ Benjamin Franklin Echo Cave is a shorter morning walk but it is often a hike that folk find quite tough! The hike to Echo Cave
The 40 Series ~ 40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education. Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary It’s been another magic day in the great outdoors! We began our morning with fun & games on the grass then
