The Wild Flowers of the Drakensberg Mountains are best experienced in the form of day tours. The Drakensberg mountains are synonymous with rare and exquisite flora - such as cycads, variety of wildlife - both antelopes and pedrators, and bird sanctuary - Bearded Vulture, Martial Eagle, Cape Vulture and others. While searching for rare plants and animal-life of South Africa's spectacular Drakensberg Mountains you will experience some of the most beautiful scenery anywhere in the world.
Explore the foothills
of the Drakensberg with wild flower expert Lesley
Robinson. The foothills offer a magnificent flowering grasses in hues of
copper. blue and gold. Then there are the little streams and steep
valleys where a vastly divers spectumof wild flowers are to be found.
Giants
Castle too is a wild flower experience not to be missed. So much so that
the Giants Castle Camp accommodation units have been named after the wild floweres
found nearby. Information on the plants and examples of the wild floweres can
be found in their indigenous garden. Royal
Natal offers similar oppertunities to Giants Castle
The
Southern Drakensberg,
bordering with the East
Griqualand area, is a world of majestic scenery and solitude. A landscape
of cliffs and forested river valleys, rolling farmland and vast tracts of unspoiled
wilderness. A scenic paradise for any wild flower enthusiast
The
mountains also contain thousands of
Bushman rock painting sites, evidence of the small, primitive San people
who practised a prehistoric life style in the area long ago. The earliest of
these paintings are about 800 years old, and the golden age of the painters
was between 400 and 200 years ago. The paintings are mainly of people, their
equipment and animals, wild and domestic. Of the antelope
represented the eland and grey rhebuck are the most abundant.