God’s Window Skywalk: First skywalk of its kind in South Africa to open in Mpumalanga!

The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) held an official sod-turning ceremony on 17 September 2021 to officially announce the start of the construction of the God's Window Skywalk in the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga. The new attraction is located within the proximity of the famous Graskop Gorge. The God's Window Skywalk, which is dubbed as the first skywalk of its kind in South Africa, involves the development of a cantilevered glass walkway suspended off the edge of the cliff, to give visitors a 360-degree panoramic view. The walkway will protrude about 12 metres out from the cliff and will be about 5 metres wide. It will offer visitors a panoramic view of the Lowveld more than 900 metres down into a lush indigenous forest-clad ravine. With such a drop, the God’s Window Skywalk will be higher than the Grand Canyon Skywalk, which stands at between 150 metres and 280 metres, and the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge in China, which is 260 metres at its highest point.

According to the MTPA, the God's Window Skywalk in the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga will have a number of activities on-site - the skywalk, a sky bridge, a sky swing, a zero-gravity room as well as a conference and meeting facility. The plan is for a significant part of the activities to be run by local unemployed youths from the area.