God's Window

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View from God's Window

God's Window Escarpment is a popular vantage point along the Blyde River Canyon, in South Africa.

At God's Window on the Escarpment, majestic cliffs plunge over 700 meters to the Lowveld and the game reserves which have made the area one of Africa's prime wildlife destinations. From this Escarpment - a 250km long rampart of sheer cliffs - opens a vista into a plush forest, the Eden-like aesthetic appearance of which prompted the name. It is possible to see over the Kruger National Park right into neighbouring Mozambique on a clear day.

Sign from a garbage can at God's Window

God's Window played an important role in the plot of the 1980 cult film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Near the end of the movie, the Bushman character Xi (played by Namibian bush farmer N!xau) traveled to God's Window, believing it to be the end of the Earth, and threw a Coke bottle from the escarpment. The bottle, which Xi had found near the beginning of the movie, set the plot into motion, and the movie focused heavily on his reactions to Western civilization as he traveled from his clan's home to God's Window.