Drakensbergs

We said a tearful goodbye to the staff at Safubi on Monday 1st of July. Then staff had clubbed together and bought us a beautiful set of towels embroidered with Africa on them. They will be treasured.

We headed south to the Drakensberg Mountains. The drive took longer than we had planned, by the time darkness fell we were still not at our destination. We got a little lost, I panicked a little but Andrew remained calm and eventually arrived at  Hlalanathi. We were in the garden cottage, a typical thatched  rondavel type cottage but furnished with antique type furniture, quite lovely. 

We had a couple of wonderful walks in the mountains. This part of the "Berg" is called The Amphitheatre. As the name suggests there were huge flat topped mountains that form and arch bounded at each end by even higher mountain buttresses. We had planned for cold weather there but actually it was mild and warm. Except cold at night and we were grateful for the hot water bottle provided!

The Amphitheatre!

The walk on day two near Cathedral Peak..

The roof of the Garden Cottage. I have been fascinated with these from when we first stayed in a similar one in Kruger.