uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, The Barrier of Spears. World Heritage Site
Let Southbound take you to a place of wonder and beauty that sprawls in
breathtaking splendour between the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and the ice-capped
peaks of the Kingdom of Lesotho. The AmaZulu—‘People of Heaven’—who live in the
long eastern shadow of the mountains call them uKhahlamba, the ‘Barrier of
spears’. The first Boer settlers to trail their ox-wagons into the foothills
dubbed them the Drakensberg, the ‘Dragon’s mountain’. Both names are in official
use today, but South Africans, in unconscious recognition of its singularity,
tend simply to refer to the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg as The Berg—‘The Mountain’.
The Park—2,500 square kilometres—the single largest mountain wilderness area protected anywhere in Africa
Sacred to the ancients, the Bushmen, as depicted in the highest concentration of rock art in Africa
A historical melting pot of Bushmen, Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Boer and Brit
A wealth of fauna and flora with 2,153 plant, 48 mammal and over 300 bird species identified
Detailed maps, colour photographs, hiking trails and route guides
Comprehensive listings for travellers of places to go, things to see, and
accommodation
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