The Drakensberg Mountains - Mpumalanga, South Africa
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The Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa is a 200-kilometre-long mountainous wonderland and world heritage site.
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Location: Mpumalanga, South Africa
Date Posted: 11/16/2013
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The Mpumalanga Drakensberg escarpment, where the highveld falls away to the plains of the low-lying country, has more waterfalls than any other area in South Africa. Numerous rivers and streams flow over the jagged edge of the great plateau, waging through ravines and kloofs before descending on the lowveld floor. (
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The Blyde River Canyon is a significant natural feature of South Africa, located in Mpumalanga, and forming the northern part of the Drakensberg escarpment. It is the third largest canyon in the world, after the Grand Canyon in the United States and the Fish River Canyon in Namibia, and is the largest 'green canyon' due to its lush subtropical foliage, with the deepest precipitious cliffs of any canyon on the planet.
The entire Blyde River Canyon has a number of world-renowned attractions and activities. The 'Pinnacle' is a single quartzite column rising out of the deep wooded canyon and the ‘Three Rondavels' - three huge spirals of dolomite rock rising out of the far wall of the Blyde River canyon, stained with fiery orange lichen - are spectacular. At the meeting point of the Blyde River (River of joy) and the Treur River (River of sorrow) water erosion has created one of the most phenomenal geological phenomenon in South Africa - the ‘Bourke’s Luck Potholes’. (
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