Weesgerus Holiday Resort

We reluctantly  left "Die Eiland" Holiday Resort on Friday morning for our next perfect stop over at "Weesgerus" holiday resort just a few kilometers from Nylsroom on the Vaalwater road. We drove 260km on this day,I decided to take the route that took us through Mojadji gorge and Mooketsi to Polokwane on to Potgietersrus (Makopane) and Naboomspruit (Mookgophong). This route is not nearly as mountainous as the more direct route through Magoebas gorge and the town of Haenertsburg. I have travelled this raod many times in the past and knows it well. We stopped for breakfast at the the Shell Ultracity on the N1  before resuming our journey. This road is a two lane highway and is a toll road all the way to Gauging and beyond, very expensive to travel on with the bus but so convenient.
We arrived at Nylstroom (Modimole) in the afternoon and refueled the bus at less than R14.00 per liter for a change. We drove to the resort and after checking in at the reception went off in search of our not so perfect spot. The camping site the lady at reception allocated to us after seeing our bus and decided that it's to big was way to far from the recreational area with no other campers nearby. So off to the office we went in the small bus to state our case. The lady understood and gave us a list of empty sites that we could choose from much closer to the pool area. I decided on a site that we could fit the bus in and set up camp. The camp filled up during the afternoon and we relaxed at the campfire while the children went for a swim in the heated pools.
Saturday morning we went to the local shopping mall to buy some necessities.
On our way back we stopped at the site where the English Commanders setup a concentration camp to keep the women and children during the English invasion and war against the two Afrikaner Republic's. It is heart breaking to see all the hundreds off graves many of them being those of young children that died dew to the lack off enough food and shelter in the harsh African climate. During this the second time that England made war here against the Transvaal Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State, thousands of women and children died in these concentration camps. Some say it is the forgotten genocide of the Afrikaner people by the mighty British empire. Sadly it is part of our Afrikaner history, a important  part of history my children need to known about.