Visit and explore more Port Elizabeth videos. https://www.youtu.be/cAPiFdMW588 In 1837, the Port Elizabeth based Boer, Piet Retief, organized an expedition from Grahamstown, after issuing a manifesto outlining his reasons for undertaking the Trek into the interior. After joining with an expedition led by Andries Potgieter for the initial trek north, Retief and his party turned eastwards over the Drakensberg mountains (the Dragon Mountains) in a virtually superhuman effort of … [Read more...] about 1838 Die Groot Trek oor die Drakensberg [video]
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Drakensberg Amphitheater views – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Drakensberg Amphitheater views: South Africa has two iconic "flat" mountains. Table Mountain in the west and the Drakensberg's Amphitheater in the east. It is below the Amphitheater in the Royal Natal National Park that we camped at Mahai during December and like with Table Mountain I just could not get enough of looking up at the Amphitheater. Well truthfully, not just the Amphitheater but all the mountains around us, … [Read more...] about Drakensberg Amphitheater views – Featured Blog
Mahai Campsite – heaven in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Mahai Campsite - heaven in the Drakensberg: Nestled in a beautiful valley in the Royal Natal National Park of the Northern Drakensberg is a campsite that regularly makes lists of top campsites in South Africa. Six years ago we discovered Mahai Campsite for the first time and spend an unfortunate holiday there during major floods that hit the area that summer. Even with all that it still counts as one of our favorite holidays and … [Read more...] about Mahai Campsite – heaven in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Camping in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Camping in the Drakensberg: The general holiday question is always, BEACH or BUSH? I will probably choose bush over beach 7 out of 10 times but that's because I live on the coast. It's also because I love getting away to a forest, the bush, a game reserve or the wide open spaces of the Karoo. Although I feel you can group all these things into the BUSH category, something is definitely missing from that question though. … [Read more...] about Camping in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
The Drakensberg Amphitheatre – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: The Drakensberg Amphitheatre: The Amphitheatre must surely be the most recognised and best know feature of the Drakensberg and looked down over us while we were camping in the Royal Natal National Park in December. The Amphitheatre is over 5 kilometers in length and the cliffs along its entire face is about 1 220 meters high at average. The source of the Tugela River is up in this section of the Drakensberg and the Tugela … [Read more...] about The Drakensberg Amphitheatre – Featured Blog
Approaching thunderstorms in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Approaching thunderstorms in the Drakensberg: Everybody who has ever been on holiday, weekend away or a hiking trip in the Drakensberg in summer will tell you that you are very likely to have your afternoon interrupted by a little, or sometimes a rather big, thunderstorm bringing along with it some thunder and lighting and a few (which could also be quite a lot) drops of rain. Our 10 days at Mahai in the Northern Drakesberg's Royal … [Read more...] about Approaching thunderstorms in the Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Admiring the Amphitheatre in the Northern Drakensberg – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Admiring the Amphitheatre in the Northern Drakensberg: 2017 has kicked off and the ball is in the air with all the players jostling for places below trying to catch what the year is kicking their way. We ended off 2016 with two weeks camping in the Royal Natal National Park (RNNP) in the Drakensberg hence my little stretch of silence. I have so many pictures from the trip I'm working through and some of them really show off … [Read more...] about Admiring the Amphitheatre in the Northern Drakensberg – Featured Blog
SAS Drakensberg Panorama – Editors Pic
This image is from the MyPE Editor's Flickr Account - offering some topical daily images from a phone smarter than Alan, occasional images from a DSLR and scanned images of Port Elizabeth as he wanders around the Bay pretending to know a lot and sometimes succeeding in making a complete hash of it! SAS Drakensberg Panorama Image by awstraton A panorama of the Port of Port Elizabeth and the Naval ship SAS Drakensberg. This image is randomly selected from an ever growing repository of … [Read more...] about SAS Drakensberg Panorama – Editors Pic
SAS Drakensberg Stern Deck – Editors Pic
This image is from the MyPE Editor's Flickr Account - offering some topical daily images from a phone smarter than Alan, occasional images from a DSLR and scanned images of Port Elizabeth as he wanders around the Bay pretending to know a lot and sometimes succeeding in making a complete hash of it! SAS Drakensberg Stern Deck Image by awstraton The SA Navy are very excited to be in Port Elizabeth for Armed Forces Day 2016. The Armed Forces Day Parade will take place on 21 February 2016 along … [Read more...] about SAS Drakensberg Stern Deck – Editors Pic
