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After Coffee Bay we spent a night in Durban, then headed onto the Drakensburg Mountains (after a four hour stop in Pietermanizburg, the Most Boring Town on Earth). Our hostel, Sani Lodge, was just near the border with Lesotho (a small independant Kingdom, landlocked by South Africa) so our first day we spent on a day trip there. Lesotho is known as a kingdom in the sky- it´s the highest country on Earth. After a very rocky drive up there, we arrived in a traditional village shrouded in cloud. A local woman let us into her home, where we tasted fresh baked bread and local beer (it used to be illegal for the bantos to drink, so they brewed their own beer which they still have now- it looks like a very very watery porrige and tastes about the same). We then headed on a little further where we got to watch goat sheering- the wool from Lesotho is one of their biggest exports. After that we stopped for lunch and did a short hike to a peak from which we could see Hodgson´s Peak, the highest mountain south of Kili. Then we drove to the Sani Top Chalet, the highest pub in Africa, and back to the lodge. The second day, Becky and I went on a hike on our own. The views from the top of the peak were amazing, although it was pretty steep and coming down was a little trecherous. Once again we got lost (the single common feature of all our walks!), and ended up climbing backwards down a near sheer embankment to try and find the path. Once again, we didn´t arrive back until it was nearly dark, to find we´d missed dinner so we feasted on museli with warm milk (from the cow at the hostel, milked every morning) and teh hostel´s ´famous´chocolate cake.
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