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Any route will deliver

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  • Agama watching you!
  • Agathosma martiana flowers and buds
  • Agathosma martiana stamens and styles
  • Aizoon glinoides covering some ground
  • Anginon difforme, wildevinkel
  • Any route will deliver
  • Aspalathus kougaensis flower and leaves
  • Aspalathus kougaensis lower parts
  • Aspalathus spinosa subsp. spinosa flowering branches
  • Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis after flowering
  • Chironia baccifera, a plant full of stories
  • Crassula cultrata after flowering
  • Crassula subaphylla var. subaphylla
  • Diosma prama flower
  • Diosma prama in renosterveld
  • Eriocephalus africanus var. paniculatus
  • Euclea crispa subsp. crispa green fruit

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Summer hiking without a breeze challenges in this terrain. Meandering through the scrub presents endless encounters with plant, rock and the occasional animal, darting or in frozen mode. The mind blurs the detail within minutes into semi-forgotten glimpses. The overall experience leaves traces treasured in recall, unequalled by any other form of living, depending on the rank ordering of values.

Monotonous cicada song resembling tinnitus dwells in memory afterwards, alongside the sensation of heat and exaggerated silence. Consciousness wanders, intermittently forced from reverie to face features of stark reality requiring full attention, more often for the hiker not familiar with the veld.

The kneaded hills resembling tomorrow’s bread continually present new suggestions for impromptu route changes, shaping the unique adventure of the day. The long walk is never to be forgotten.

In the human mind never is a finite, unpredictable notion, adjusted by hope and sometimes rewarded by erratic recollection later in life.

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Thabo Maphisa
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Ivan Latti
 
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