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Golden Gate Highlands National Park is in the north-eastern Free State Province of South Africa, just north of Lesotho. The main focus of Golden Gate is the sandstone formations, including outcrops, cliffs, and caves, with their varied hues of ochre. There is a public road, the R712, that runs through the park. You can see […]
The iconic view of the northern Drakensberg mountains is the Amphitheatre – an impressive, curved wall of basalt cliffs.Tugela Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall, drops over the Amphitheatre escarpment into the gorge below in 5 tiers. Tugela Falls may be very high, but it is low volume as it has a small drainage area. There […]
Where is Monks Cowl Reserve? Monks Cowl Reserve is in the central Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal and forms part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site. It was previously known as Monk’s Cowl Forest Station. (The apostrophe seems to have been dropped in the official naming). In Google Maps, the location is indicated as Monks Cowl […]
Mapungubwe National Park is one of South Africa’s best kept secrets. It is located in the far north of South Africa bordering Botswana and Zimbabwe where the Shashe and Limpopo rivers meet. There are wonderful rocky landscapes with scattered baobab trees as well as sections of riverine forest. Not only is Mapungubwe a game reserve, […]