Star - Nature's palette of joy
Star - Nature's palette of joy: "Nature's splendour can be discovered all over South and Southern Africa. But, writes Winnie Graham, many people still have to discover the wonders of the Drakensberg. It's all there: rock art, landscapes and biological diversity.
There was a time when lonely herdsmen watching their cattle among mist-shrouded peaks were the only ones to appreciate the
exquisite wild flowers of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg - one of South Africa's magnificent World Heritage sites.
All that has changed as more and more tourists, both domestic and international, head for the mountains.
The plants of South Africa's eastern seaboard are rapidly becoming as much a tourist attraction as those of another World Heritage site: those of the Western Cape, an area stretching from the southern tip of South Africa to Namaqualand. This has been described as 'one of the world's most precious natural assets' and has been identified as one of the top 20 key eco-regions of the world crucial to conservation. "
There was a time when lonely herdsmen watching their cattle among mist-shrouded peaks were the only ones to appreciate the
exquisite wild flowers of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg - one of South Africa's magnificent World Heritage sites.
All that has changed as more and more tourists, both domestic and international, head for the mountains.
The plants of South Africa's eastern seaboard are rapidly becoming as much a tourist attraction as those of another World Heritage site: those of the Western Cape, an area stretching from the southern tip of South Africa to Namaqualand. This has been described as 'one of the world's most precious natural assets' and has been identified as one of the top 20 key eco-regions of the world crucial to conservation. "
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