Pilgrims Rest, South Africa - Sacred Heart Church, Dredzen Shop,House Museum, Historic Cemetery, Joubert Bridge, Digging Museum , Gold Panning ,Printing Museum.

Scenic, Museum, Monuments

Pilgrim's Rest is located on the glorious Panorama Route on the eastern Escarpment region of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.  The area is splendidlyimbued with a diversity of natural, cultural and historic gems.  The rareness of this historic village is vividly manifest in its museums and historic sites.  It offers the visitor a charming window into the past and captures the fortitude of a bygone era and its people in their pursuit for gold. The entire town of Pilgrim's Rest was affirmed a National Monument in 1986 as a living memory of the early gold rush days in South Africa during the late 1800s or early 1900s.