TRAVEL The Berg
We are so spoilt,’ I tell my children, sounding more like a stuck record each time. ‘Some countries are just sand and rocks, some are flat, some have no coastline. But we have mountains, forests, rivers, beaches. We live in such a great place. And you haven’t even scratched the surface of it.’
They roll their eyes, because…of course they do, they’ve heard it all before. And yet for all my preaching, I can’t help feeling like a bit of a fraud sometimes. Because the truth is, I haven’t even scratched the surface of it either. Despite my love for this land, there are so many things I haven’t seen - the Drakensberg, for one. And what self-respecting Getaway writer hasn’t seen the Drakensberg?
And so, when the opportunity came to jump in a minibus for a winter tour of the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), I jumped at it What was on the itinerary? Who cares! I was in.
As it turned out, the tour had been carefully designed to showcase some of the beauty and many wonders of this area Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the eastern Free State. Hosted by a handful of groups
