The Three Rondevals

This incredibly beautiful area is in the Drakkenburg Mountains, where the Blyde River canyon has carved out some amazing rock formations.  This canyon wends for miles, and is in fact the world's largest green canyon system (and is third in the world behind the Grand Canyon and the Fish River Canyon).  The river has worn the rock unevenly, leaving huge circular stone mounds, covered in green trees, and looking much like the traditional thatch-roof houses called rondevals.  The so-called Three Rondevals is a particularly spectacular set of rock formations, and we had the chance to view them from across the river canyon.  It was a gorgeous bright and clear day, not too hot, but nice and sunny.  I'm posting some photos here, and although it's hard to tell the grandeur and scale, just trust me, this is a huge and deep canyon system.  It's also hard to tell from these photos, but the rock walls are stained red and yellow and dark green from various minerals, and the effect is as if they are splattered with huge blotches of bright paint.