The Dragon Mountains

So during the off week 6 other students and I went for a day trip up to the mountains about two hours from campus. It’s called the Drakensberg mountains and in Afrikaans it means the Dragon Mountains 

 The name fits the place quite nicely as it seems to be something from Middle earth itself and it’s quite easy to imagine a dragon flying through its deeply cut gorges draped in mist and perching a lot the sheer rock ledges overlooking the river.

 The hike we did took about 5 hours and we where glad to have the fog during the first part as it heated up after the morning

This is what part of the trial went through, some of those vines have thorns easily 2 inches long

 A Dward Flat lizard, the only dragon we came across

It took about 2 hours to get form the top down to the rivers below, and these rivers and waterfalls lead to the large river that runs through the mountains. After two hours of walking these would be a perfect place to cool off.

  

These mountains run have a scenic rout, after our walk we grabbed lunch back at the top and then went from look out to look out following the main river and deep cliffs down and around until the sun set