"2013 extension includes Sehlabathebe National Park. The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts. Rolling high altitude grasslands, the pristine steep-sided river valleys and rocky gorges also contribute to the beauty of the site. The site’s diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally threatened species, especially birds and plants. This spectacular natural site also contains many caves and rock-shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara, made by the San people over a period of 4,000 years. The rock paintings are outstanding in quality and diversity of subject and in their depiction of animals and human beings. They represent the spiritual life of the now extinct San people."
Source: UNESCO World Heritage
Postcard 1A - South Africa
Cathedral Peak of Drakensberg in Natal. The park has over 243,000 hectares of mountain splendour. Nice stamp of sugilite gem, postmarked in Durban. Thanks to Michael of South Africa.
Postcard 1B - South Africa
Prehistoric rock art of Bushmen painting in Drakensberg. Thanks to Sylwia of Poland.
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