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Blyde River Canyon Nature Preserve is home of the third largest canyon in the world, also the largest vegetated or green canyon. The nature preserve is located in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It extends along Blyde River Canyon’s unique and winding path, which at every turn you make offers a more impressive view over the sheer edges over the river bed. This natural wonder holds some of the most incredible natural findings, including “God's Window” and “Bourke's Luck Potholes.”

Blyde River Canyon Nature Preserve was not proclaimed an actual nature preserve until November, 1965, even though people before this considered it as one. Many people come to this nature preserve because of what it holds. It holds two of the most amazing wonders that man has seen. Those two wonders include “God's Window” and the “Bourke’s Luck Potholes.” God's Window is an area of the foliage where, on a clear day, you can see right through the plants, all the way to the Kruger National Park and Mozambique. This is the spot of the nature reserve where the most pictures are taken by the tourists. The sight that it offers is incredible and there is nothing like it anywhere but in Blyde River Canyon Nature Preserve.

Bourke's Luck Potholes are potholes that have been carved over centuries by pebbles swirling around them in a twist-like motion where the Treur River falls into the Blyde River. Many people believed that someone by the name of Bourke had made these potholes himself, however they were named Bourke's Luck Potholes because of his lucky strike in this gold-rich area. This wonder is located not far from God's Window, but its direct location is on the paths of the Panorama Route of this nature preserve.

Tourists come to this nature preserve to not only see the natural wonders it has to offer, but the actual canyon itself. The canyon is a beautiful, plant rich canyon that extends for miles and miles on the Blyde River. This nature preserve is unlike anything that anyone has ever seen but in this area and it is truly breathtaking. Blyde River Canyon Nature Preserve is one of the most beautiful, and also intriguing, areas in South Africa.