The tallest range in Southern Africa the Dragon Mountains or in Zulu the barrier of spears.

Zulu name for drakensberg. There are many different stories as to the origin of this name. The route follows the main path from the Monks Cowl forest station up to the Sphinx and then on to Breakfast Stream. Its an appropriate name as this huge wall of basalt just rises up out of the pretty green Midlands forbidding and impassableIts a UNESCO world heritage site.

Both the Zulu name uKhahlamba barrier of spears and the Afrikaans name Drakensberg dragon mountain fit the formidable horizon created by the range situated just outside Durban KwaZulu Natal. Thanks to its unique formation and distinctive structure the ranges name translates to Dragons Mountains in Afrikaans and Barrier Of Spears in Zulu. KwaZulu-Natal k w ɑː ˌ z uː l uː n ə ˈ t ɑː l also referred to as KZN and known as the garden province.

The river originates in Mont-aux-Sources of the Drakensberg Mountains and plunges 947 metres down the Tugela FallsThe Mont-aux-Sources is also the origin of tributaries of two other major South African rivers the Orange. This peak is also the source of the Injasuti river a lovely stream with rainbow trout. A massive basaltic cap set on a broad base of sedimentary rocks belonging to the Stormberg series of 150 million years ago the mountains are South Africas main watershed.

The Tugela River Zulu. Hugging the border with Lesotho South Africas premier mountain wilderness is mostly a vast national park officially known as the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park. Zulu Cave is situated on a cul-de-sac and fell out of use for a number of years but being only one of a few caves that can be used for overnight trips its worth a visit.

Giants Castle for example is known as Bhulihawu the shield thrasher. To the Zulus the Battle of Ulundi is known as Nodwengu although the place of Ulundi or oNdini means The Heights a Zulu name for the Drakensberg mountain range. More Sani Top Chalet in the Drakensberg.

KwaZoeloe-Natal is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu Place of the Zulu in Zulu and Natal Province were merged. Dog in Zulu is Inja and when youve had enough to eat you say you are sutile. This World Heritage Site is part of a much longer mountain range that stretches some 1600 kilometres from South Africas northernmost provinces to the Eastern Cape.