Modimolle was called Nylstroom until 2002. Why? Because in the 1860s, a bunch of fractious Voortrekkers, determined to escape the ongoing vexations of the British, had stomped away in search of the Holy Land. To their astonishment, only two hundred and fifty crow-kilometres from home, they stumbled across a mountain in the shape of a pyramid with a stream nearby and flowing northwards. So there it was. Egypt and the Nile. They decided they were close enough to Israel and built a town. Job done.