ekuThuleni Underberg
, P.O.Box 284 Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal, 3257, South Africa
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Sani pass
This is a top pick!
... oh well... I am so glad we did not sleep in the car or worse! So much for being so naive, really!
The drive still takes quite a lot of time and so, we will miss the bushman paintings site that we wanted to visit. We decide to push further still, to Northern Drakensberg. We know there are mountains somewhere, but they are all hidden in the clouds.
We had quite a day nonetheless, not to mention driving passed a diamond mine and its horrible ...
Drakensberg Hike - sore, sore legs!
... pale ale was the best and had a bratwurst and rosti. Really nice restaurant but we were knackered after the drive so headed back and were in bed at 8.30 – party animals we are!
Friday we were up and way by around 8.30 to meet up with the others at Underberg. Stopped off for fuel and had a mini detour in Howick to see the falls. Cute town this area is much like that around Busso/Margaret River and could have spent ages wandering into the shops but had to move ...
Barrier of Spears (Sani Pass)
... for the night. My backup plan was to stay at the summit.
I was a little late departing, and it looked like I might not be able to make it to the top at all. There is a border post at Sani Top which lets you into Lesotho, and that shuts at 6pm. But I knew it would be dark long before that on the eastern side of this mountain range, which would pose a bigger problem. I left the lovely 20 degree Durban day behind, disgraced myself with a ...
Lonely Planet isn't always right...
... but I'll take their word for it. It was early to bed for an early start to the famous Sani Pass. Once again it is quite a distance and took us a couple of hours to drive to the start. We started in a little convoy that happened to form of six vehicles and as we got closer to the actual pass these seemed to dwindle until there were two of us. The road deteriorated quite rapidly but again the LP recommended that only 4x4s should attempt this. In fact we saw ...
Sani Top, Lesotho - Kingdom in the Sky!
... plying the same route we were on. Steve seemed to know all of the other drivers, all professional mountain drivers bound together by a common danger. Very quickly the road turned into a rocky path flanked on both sides by some gorgeous scenery. Baboons were out and about on the slopes and griffin vultures could just about be seen riding the thermals above our heads.
As we snaked around one bend with a sheer drop to one side, Steve asked if any of us were afraid ...
