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Swimming pool at Cathedral Peak Hotel, Cathedral Peak Nature Reserve, Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg

Swimming pool at Cathedral Peak Hotel, Cathedral Peak Nature Reserve, Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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San Pass, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park is in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa, covering 242, 813 ha of area. The park includes Royal Natal National Park, a provincial park, and covers part of the Drakensberg, the highest mountain range in Southern Africa. The park and the adjoining Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho are part of the Maloti Drakensberg Park, which was first declared a World Heritage Site on 30 November 2000. It is described by UNESCO as having exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts.. the sites diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally threatened species, especially birds and plants also contains many caves and rock shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara

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Sunrise With the Zebras & Wildebeest, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19, 485 square kilometres (7, 523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926

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