After leaving Sarah and Jessica at the airport on Friday, Dan and I left for our trip to the Drakensberg Mountains. We were expecting about a four hour drive, maybe four and a half with stops. It ended up being about 6 hours because of a really bad road: single lane and full of potholes. Not cool when you're driving in the dark. Anyway, we eventually made it to our lodge at 10pm that night. The night guy brought us to our rondavel (little hut).
The next day we woke up surrounded by green mountains. I guess the one advantage of driving somewhere at night is that when the sun comes up, everything is a surprise. It was very beautiful. We went to talk to the owner at about 11 am. He seemed only slightly judgy that we slept in so much and gave us great advice about which hike to do that afternoon. The hike was beautiful and we got to see two waterfalls along the way.
That night, we had dinner at the lodge. Apparently the owner is a vegetarian so we had butternut soup, bread, three kinds of salad, and some sort of fruit crumble for dessert. Everything was delicious, and the owner didn't lie that we would not go hungry.
On our way back the next day we stopped by the Royal Natal National Park to see "The Amphitheatre". We had no idea what we were looking for so we didn't quite get it until we were driving away. Basically, it's a big mountain range that looks like an amphitheatre. We did get to see some more baboons though in the park. We continued on our drive back and arrived home in time to make some ostrich burgers for Dan's last dinner in South Africa.
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| Our rondavel |
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| View of Champagne Castle from our lodge |
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| Jean LeCastor with the Sterkspruit Falls |
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| Jean LeCastor with the Nandi Falls |
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| Baboons on the road in the Royal Natal National Park |
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| The Amphitheatre |
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