On the Edge of the Urban Jungle
One recent Saturday morning we decided to go cycling hardly a thing to write home about except for the fact that our 30-year-old bikes hadn”t seen the light of day for more than two decades. You know how it is. Dangerous roads, busy lives, too hot/cold/windy/wet, and the truth ’ just plain lazy.
Anyway, I”d heard about the ten-kilometre mountain-bike trail in the Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve (KSNR) in Yellowwood Park to the south of Durban. Described as a “moderately challenging but not exhausting” trail, it sounded just about doable, even for infrequent cyclists like us.
Add the likelihood of pedalling past resident wildlife such as zebras, and it promised to be a nice day out. So we packed a picnic, pumped up the tyres of our vintage bicycles, loaded them onto the
