17th April 2006, 290kms from Durban at 3hrs Drive approx.
In the Royal National Park, the mountains form an enormous amphitheater, and Mont-Aux-Sources at 3 248 m is the highest peak in the country. Other features are the Tugela Falls which cascade 800 m over the edge of the amphitheatre, the Rugged Glen Nature Reserve and the gorge carved out of the escarpment by the Tugela River.
Mthatha, located in the Eastern Cape province, was previously known as Umtata. Umtata is Madiba country, the birth city of the world’s most loved ex-convict, Nelson Mandela.
On the banks of the Mtata River - named after the Sneezewood (umtati) trees, famous for their wood and medicinal properties - Umtata was founded in 1879 and was originally the capital of the Transkei, homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. Transkei now forms part of the Eastern Cape and Umtata is still the centre of the region.
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Lake Eland Game Reserve
Sunday 4th May 2008
Durban, South Africa.
Lake Eland is situated at 35 minute drive inland from Port Shepstone, and approximately 1h 45min from Durban. Though traveling hours is just 1hr 45min it took us more than that, as It wasn't a planed visit to the game reserve, that story for some other time.
