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Images in your head
Right at the beginning of my deep personal development and soul journey to self-knowledge, I had to deal with some issues from my past in order to bring them to a close, as well as confronting what I really want and need. Since then, I have also used meditations, among other things. For example, one was and still is the meditation "Mountain of my soul" spoken by Veit Lindau - it taught me about my innermost place and its silence, as well as how I can get there at any time. When I reached the mountain in the meditation, I had a very specific image of an unfamiliar landscape in my mind's eye from the very first time: I reached the platform of my mountain via a narrow path, on which a single tree was enthroned. From there, I look down into a valley with a few small hills and a mountain range in the background. Why am I telling you this?
Homebase with added value
Many people asked us when we left Germany whether and where we would have a new home. Our home is our Keiler trailer and the equipped Prado - we have everything we own with us. We are perpetual travellers and don't want to register in any country and don't want to buy a permanent new home with all the obligations that go with it. Maybe one day we will have a home base, a place where we can return between our tours and "rest" from our adventures. Or where we can stay when we don't want to or can't be on the road. At the same time, this purchase can also be a smart investment - investments in Germany/Europe no longer have to be. And we want it to make sense and create added value. But when and, above all, where we acquire such a perfect place with added value for us as permanent travellers is something we leave open and are convinced that we will find and feel it when we encounter it.
The Klein Karoo - South Africa with a difference
Even during our first time on tour through South Africa, we were repeatedly drawn to a very special region: the Klein Karoo in the Western Cape province.
Whether travelling from the sea in the south over narrow gravel road passes through the Langeberge and Outeniqua Mountains up to this plateau. Or coming from the north via the Great Karoo down through the Swartberg or Rooi Mountains. We were immediately fascinated and captivated by this beautiful semi-desert the first time we travelled through it. Since then, we have always enjoyed coming back here:
To these beautiful, small, historic Karoo-style towns with farm stalls, cafés, art and handmade goods.
Into the very special scenery of nature and agriculture, fertile valleys with vineyards and orchards. Into the green hills stretching to the horizon and the rugged mountain ranges that line this landscape.
Into the natural paradise with its countless animals and the unique, diverse flora, which turns into a wonderful carpet of flowers in spring after the first rains. This part of South Africa is overwhelming.
And suddenly it's there - the thought of whether you can buy a piece of land here? We scour the property portals and yes, you can! Is this the region for our home base?
Our piece of Africa
We actually bought our own little piece of Africa - an incredible feeling and what a freedom: to be able to buy land where your heart smiles.
We have had some very exciting weeks behind us with many negotiations, discussions, considerations and deliberations. Days full of confidence, anticipation and plans, followed by days of disappointment. Then it was time to clear our heads again, let go of past ideas, let new possibilities in, take a different perspective - we are already practised 😉 And know that everything makes sense the way it turns out.
This is also how we get to know the approximately 5,000-hectare private nature reserve "Moose Valley", where a few farms are for sale. This private nature reserve is located about 15 kilometres west of Van Wyksdorp, a small village in the middle of the Klein Karoo, which is the only village in the Western Cape that can only be reached via gravel roads. After numerous drives and kilometres of walking across the area, a farm there has crept into our hearts:
134 hectares in size - from the Grootrivier in the north over numerous rugged hills and through the broad valley, slowly rising over green ridges and deep kloofs up to the mountains on the reserve border in the south.
With this farm, we can not only live on our large land in complete privacy surrounded by nature and silence. We can move freely throughout the nature reserve and explore it by mountain bike, on foot, on foot or by car. At the same time, as farmers of the nature reserve, we contribute to the protection of this unique flora and fauna. And together with the other farmers, we form a community of like-minded people who are there for each other.
As we are once again travelling around the property to find a possible place to park our Keiler trailer, we leave the car somewhere in the valley again and continue on foot.
This time I walk up from the valley as if magnetised and there it is, the sublime "reef" with a small tree and bush at the corner, from which three natural levels fall away, a plateau behind it and everything with a breathtaking panoramic view. We take our time with the purchase decision, come here every day, sit down by our tree, end the day there, enjoy the view and sundowners, feel, talk, keep quiet - and suddenly it falls like scales from my eyes: my goodness, I know this picture - this is the mountain of my soul!
We have arrived.
This realisation took a while, my intuition is probably not always on reception. Or not loud enough. Or covered up by thousands of thoughts and questions. I realise once again that some things would be easier if the line from the heart to the head were more often continuous. I am deeply touched: everything that we visualise, mentally in our imagination or physically on paper, comes into our lives. My subconscious has sent me the mountain of my soul as an image via meditation, it is up to me to bring this image into consciousness. Life knows the way.
Then it all happens very quickly: collecting documents, signing lots of papers and contracts, transferring money to the trust account, filing with the ministry and the municipality, and hey presto, the transfer of ownership is complete! We are farmers in South Africa!
You can find out exactly what the added value of this home base is, what is special and meaningful about our piece of land in this Private Nature Reserve, how we develop our soul place and why we often feel like the old Voortrekkers in the old days here in my blog article "Our farm in Africa - land, track and pink wool" read - have fun!
Possible questions for your personal journey of discovery:
Do you have images in your head? Can you conjure them up at any time?
Do you believe that everything you can imagine and visualise will come true?
Do you listen to your intuition? Do you let it have its say?
Are you convinced that your life knows exactly what is good for you?
Possible questions for your personal journey of discovery:
Do you have images in your head? Can you conjure them up at any time?
Do you believe that everything you can imagine and visualise will come true?
Do you listen to your intuition? Do you let it have its say?
Are you convinced that your life knows exactly what is good for you?
