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

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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.