Walks and treks

Drakensberg Amphitheatre

South Africa KwaZulu-Natal

Drakensberg Amphitheatre
Photo: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A 5 km wall of basalt cliffs in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, a UNESCO site, over which the Tugela Falls drop 948 m, among the highest in the world. The Sentinel trail climbs chain ladders to the top.


The Drakensberg also has thousands of San rock paintings.

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