The Zulu name for this mountain range cannot be beaten for its poetry or its effectiveness in describing this wonderful area - "uKhahlamba" (or barrier of spears).

The Drakensberg ranges from the massive basalt cliffs in the Limpopo province in the North East of South Africa, and extends into the Eastern Cape. It includes numerous peaks exceeding 3000m in altitude with names such as "Mont aux Sources", "The Sentinel", "Injasuti" and the intimidatingly named "Ifidi Buttress".

Along with the peaks, there are beautiful clear rivers, lakes and game parks. The region really does have something for everyone !

This 200 kilometre long wonderland owes much to its intense relationship with people...the million-plus years of Stone Age occupation in particular. This culminated in the tragic disappearance during the late 19th century of the San hunter-gatherers colloquially referred to as Bushmen.

Migrating chiefdoms from the Great Lakes of Central Africa had in the 13th century been humbled by the sheer magnitude of this uKhahlamba - Barrier of Spears - destined to become the western extreme of their Zulu Kingdom.

The ox-wagons of Boer settlers negotiated its precipitous passes in 1837 on the Great Trek from British dominion in the Cape Colony to a 'Promised Land'.