This weekend (copying Dave and Christine’s itinerary to the point) Eric and I travelled to Kestell to the Drakensberg Mountains and for a hike up to the Amphitheatre to see the start of Thukela Falls.   We stayed at a very homey backpackers where a jolly, slightly obese elderly South African women hosted guests and provided unlimited supplies of homemade jams, coffee, tea and hiking route advice.

The hike the next day was 6 hours round trip and included a 2km hike up to a set of chain linked ladders leading to a large flat plain which extended 1km to the start of Thukela Falls. Despite the threat of rain including thunder, the weather cooperated and Eric and I made the 6 hour round trip hike in 5 hours.

See pictures below:

 

Posing on the way up!

 

 

The water fall

 

 

Eric, Myself and our German hiking friends