Exploring Hogsback, South Africa // The Inspiration for Middle Earth? - S06E02
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- We have ditched the bus to visit family in South Africa and this week we are taking you along with us on a mountain weekend getaway to the magic town of Hogsback. We will do some exploring and adventuring and try to answer the question: Is Hogsback the inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings?
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00:00 Teaser
00:48 Traveling to Hogsback
01:41 House Tour
05:30 A Beautiful New Day
06:44 Starways Arts Center
07:20 The Rumors about J.R.R. Tolkien
08:05 The Rose Theatre
09:50 The Truth about J.R.R. Tolkien
10:50 The Labyrinth at The Edge
12:52 The Edge
14:00 Garden Tour
18:47 The Hogsback Arboretum
20:11 39 Steps Waterfall
21:27 California Redwoods
21:54 Baboons
23:06 The Inspiration of Hogsback
You should have filmed the drive up the mountain.....round and round up the mountain as you leave the ordinary world behind and the terrain changes as you go, until at the top you are in a new and magical world. A different climate, forests, streams, wonderful views.....a truly different world
We went there a few times as kids, stayed in a cabin/cottage and my dad would make us toast in the fireplace, it was magical. RIP Dad ❤
OH……MY……GOSH!! No words can describe Hogsback’s beauty! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ♥️
You are so welcome!
One of my favourite places in the world, truly magical, so glad you got to share it and spend such good quality time with you family there, much love ❤
It really is!
Wonderful experience traveling along with you today. Beautiful whimsical cottages, landscape, History lessons, overall tour. Beautiful family. It must be so difficult leaving your home. Thank you, Liz
Our pleasure! You are right, it’s very hard leaving each and every time
SUCH a wonderful trip!! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Absolutely beautiful!!
It was magic. Thank you for giving us such a special Anniversary gift.
Our pleasure!
Beautiful and magical place. Thank you for sharing your trip to South Africa❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks so much for sharing this journey! I look forward to seeing where you guys land when you are ready! What a beautiful adventure! 💛
Our pleasure! 🤗
Madonna and child waterfall... had many picnics besides it
Great story, great editing, awesome footage. This was very well done. Best of luck with your channel.
Thank you so much!
I wanted to live there - went on holiday in 2014 but just couldn't afford to buy land there and build - I'm a South African who lives in KZN
What an amazing place. the house is beautiful and the gardens go on and on, it is like a dream place to be in. Have a wonderful week
Thank you! You too!
Beautiful
Hi Mela and Don. It was so magical with a brilliant views of the mountains in this video and I love the garden with so many interesting different things. Thank you for sharing some of your trip and family time with us. I really enjoyed seeing a different part of the world.
Our pleasure!
Beautiful area, I had no idea of the beauty in South Africa.
Glad you both are having a wonderful time away from your Bus!.
I'll bet you miss the bus and the cats as well.
So much!
Hello Mela and Don the house is amazing, Spectacular view from the edge, the beauty of Hogsback the animals ,flowers, the waterfalls it's truly a magical place, thanks for sharing this wonderful experience with us,stay safe stay blessed
Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful 🥰
Amazing and Gorgeous place. Thanks for sharing this journey with me
Happy 50th Anniversary to Your Momma n Papa . God Bless Ya'll. Mucho Love from your friend in Michigan Tam ❤️ ♥️ 💕
Thanks so much
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Was quite surprised when you showed something completely different...when you said a trip to Africa, I expected to see all the Animals 😅❤❤❤ thanks for sharing your trip with us!!❤❤❤
Ha ha! Glad you enjoyed
I'm always surprised when people think of South Africa having wild animals... Like tourists, we too have to travel from our cities to game reserves to see them 😂
Welcome in south Africa guys I have been following since the bus build where are the cats ❤
Thanks! They are with Don’s parents having their own vacation 😉
Mela, what brought you to the USA and how long have you lived here? It must be rough to be so far away from your family.
Hello 👋 ❤❤❤❤
Just take extra care U folks... As a couple of years ago... Two dear old friends of my mother were brutally murdered not far from the Hogsback Hotel...in their houses in a period of 2 to 3 months... They never bothered to find the culprits to this day...So be extra vigilant and take care... As those cretins down there have respect for anything living nor do they hold any reverence for it either...😮.
Hi , what’s the name of the Accomodation you were staying at ?
Trengwainton. Link in description
That’s my hometown- it is called Port Elizabeth - not Gqeberha
No no, PE’s name was officially changed to Gqeberha in 2021. Read all about it here: www.wisemove.co.za/post/gqeberha-port-elizabeth-new-name#:~:text=In%20honour%20of%20his%20late,and%20celebrating%20its%20iconic%20river.
Lol. Let it go, white supremecy is over.
@@Rehabit8if If this person lives there then they should and would know about the new name . I think the person may not be accepting of the name change probably having being born there. That's quite understandable. I would not like a sudden name change to my beloved City either.
@@Rehabit8 LOL - obviously fully aware of that. The invented name, by the far-left Woke ANC regime of "Gqeberha" is Fake and Marxist - cultural Marxism to be exact - no-one gets to change any name because "they don't like the original name" - you cannot gazette a new answer to 2+3=5 because you regard it as "colonial maths" once taught to to our ancestors - same applies to place names.
@@Rehabit8Fully aware of that - not justified at any level - a fake Woke Marxist name.
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Not this nonsense again. Tolkien left South Africa when he was four and he was never in the Hogsback area. The whole myth was started by a campsite in the area being named Hobbiton 10 years after the publishing of the Hobbit.