If any landscape lives up to its airbrushed, publicity-shot alter ego, it is the jagged green sweep of the tabletop peaks of the Drakensberg range. This forms the boundary between South Africa and the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, and offers some of the country's most awe-inspiring landscapes. Drakensburg means 'Dragon Mountains'; the Zulu named it Quathlamba, meanthing 'Battlement of the Spears'. The Zulu word is a more accurate description of the sheer escarpment but the Afrikaans name captures something of the Drakensberg's otherworldly atmosphere.
What a mushroom! It popped up after some serious lightening & thunder. It was huge (and hard in texture). Before the baboons found it, we grabbed it and later grilled it up with butter.. delicious!