If someone asked me why I love the Vumba – it would be for this:
I’m not a golfer. Yet the Vumba has a certain kind of magic that makes me want to pick up a club and swipe the ball into the fluffy white clouds, over and over again.
I’m not a gardener. Yet the Vumba is like one big enchanted garden. It captures my imagination and draws me into a world of colour, shapes and textures – like I’m walking into an artist’s painting.
I’m not a hiker. Yet the Vumba makes me want to shake the dust off a pair of my old hiking boots – and walk deep into the forest, finding waterfalls, streams and little openings in the canopy of trees. Discovering secrets that are only shared with those who explore.
I’m not a baker. Yet the Vumba bewitches me with all things sweet. Like a page torn out of the fairytale book, Hansel and Gretel – I’m led to a little cottage in the depths of a forest where I am fattened up with chocolate, thick dollops of cream and crushed hazelnuts soaked in coffee liqueur.
I’m not a birder. Yet the Vumba slows me down. It makes me want to lie sprawled on my back in the middle of a forested garden and listen. It’s a place that quietens my soul and opens my ears to the singing of birds.
The Vumba is a place that inspires.
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 193
Home!! My sister and I spent so much time searching for secret enchanted glades and fairy gardens in those forests – how can you not believe in magic after visiting a place like the Vumba. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
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Touching the magic! Thank you, Lianne.
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It’s my pleasure Peter 🙂 I’ve been on the road for the last 2 months and looking forward to getting home and back to the blog and catching up on your posts!
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Touching words, awesome pictures. As usual 🙂 your work is enchanting.
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Thank you 🙂 I must say that I had fun with the enchanting theme this week – thank you for the wonderful compliments!
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Based on these images, I can see why the Vumba makes you want to be all of those things; it makes me want to be all of those things, too! I had no idea Africa housed so much beauty. Shows how ignorant I truly am. Thank you so mch for sharing. Lovely photos, as always!
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It’s my pleasure Jessica 🙂 Thanks for the read!
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I love your work!
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Oh, the space, the poetry, the details, the nature, the Africa… These photos make it easy to see that this is the continent we all come from. Excellent, Lianne!
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Thank you Alessandro 🙂
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it looks like a dreamland from the pictures, and from your words it sounds like Vumba somehow ‘calls’ one with a quiet voice
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Exquisite Lianne! So inspiring and also makes me long to go there!
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Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful photos of this magical place. i think I even made a profit in the casino…at least once!!
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Thanks Joan 🙂
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Absolutely enchanting photography! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you!
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Wow Lianne, those images are just stunning, I feel like getting in my vehicle and moving to Vumba right now at 8pm. Well done, hope to see you in our patch soon. love Trish
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Thanks Trish – yes, looking forward to some cold, frosty Winter weather and catching up with you all 🙂
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