VAST VAST LANDSCAPES ALL AROUND YOU-makes your eyes ache!!

Land of contrasts. North Drakensberg with Blyde River Canyon, gorges and waterfalls whereas Southern Drakensberg is vast expanses of lush grasslands with rolling hills and distant mountains all around you. Our eyes hurt just looking continuously at the amazing landscapes. This is farming areas with large herds of cattle everywhere as well as incredible mountains.

Ardmore is £60pppn for the cute cottage below plus good breakfast and four
course dinner with wine. Very good value cos the cottage has a four poster and ensuite plus two other bedrooms. The lounge is great with comfy sofas and log fires which you are encouraged to use upstairs and down. Lots of facilities too a large swimming pool and other activities for kids

Spioenkop Dam/lake was beautiful and there was wild life, wildebeest and zebra as seen in the photo below and us
- no one else

The last picture is of a typical African home. We have hardly seen any shanti towns. Large employers are being enforced to supply reasonable accommodation for their employees. So near a factory you will see an area of individual rectangular single story homes - bricks and corrugated roofs and glass windows.7
But the typical African home is a thatched rondavel. As the family grows and marries they have their own detached single brick dwelling next to the parents. So you will see a large family altogether sharing the same piece of land but with their own houses and share growing and tending crops, chickens goats etc. How sensible!!
Also all the Africans we have met so far are always in clean colourful clothes and they take pride in themselves and their
homes however poor.

Love Africa