We woke up om the first morning in the Drakensberg with SNOW on the mountains!!No wonder it was so cold the night before. OK, it was not snow down to the road, but snow none the less. The day was clear and it looked like the Reception lady was right about the weather for the day. After breakfast we set off to the Royal Natal National park to go and do the hike to the Tugela gorge.It was not a strenuous walk, however we spent the best part of the day walking, chatting, taking photos and generally admiring the beauty of the area that we were in.
At one of the spots where we stopped to have a short rest, we heard a huge commotion in the trees. It was clearly a bird couple making all the noise. Well the next moment a boomslang fell to the ground about half a metre from where one of our guys were standing. Well, needless to say, the moment was not captured on camera, as the snake was away in a flash and so was Martin.
We did not make it to the very end of the Gorge and stand under the Tugela falls. It was just too far and it was pretty hot as well, however we all felt happy that we had gone as far as we had. When I work out how to attach pics, I will add on.
The original plan was to drive from the Drakensberg to Ballito and then to Dundee the next day. Well by general consensus of the group and much to our delight they decided to cut out Ballito and several hundreds of kilometers and on the next day we headed off to Dundee and the Battlefields.
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