Drakensburg

The Drakensberg is a chain of hills extending for 1,000km/620mi from the Kruger National Park in the north to the eastern border of the kingdom of Lesotho in the south. It is the eastern and scenically most spectacular part of the Great Escarpment which girdles the interior plateau of South Africa and separates it from the coastal regions.

Within the Drakensberg range are the highest mountains on the African continent after Kilimanjaro, with numerous peaks rising above 3,000m/10,000ft. They were formed in the late Palaeozoic era, some 300 million years ago, when massive deposits of the Karoo Series were built up throughout the whole of southern Africa. These can still be seen in the Drakensberg. When the African continent came into