The titles of this post is the opening line to the apartheid-era national anthem spoken in Afrikaans (It translates as “out of the blue of our heaven”), a legacy the country still hasn’t quire settled with…. but for all it’s “spiky bits” that’s thing about South Africa: it gets inside of you. It’s wild and beautiful in a way that you can’t understand unless you’ve lived it and breathed it. It’s about being presented with unique majestic panoramas that are simultaneously full of dangerous creatures (including some of the locals).It’s that friction between it’s natural beauty and it’s cultural legacy of racial, tribal and cultural tension and the struggle to resolve those conflicts that to a point defines the country’s unique personality. More photo’s after the break...













