Drakensberg

The Drakensberg is a mountain range stretching more than 1,000 kilometers from southwest to northeast along the border of South Africa and Lesotho, forming parts of the provincial boundaries of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Mpumalanga. Its highest point, Thabana Ntlenyana, reaches 3,482 meters, and the Great Escarpment it forms holds elevations of 2,000 to 3,482 meters across its highest sections. Composed mainly of basalt and quartzite, the escarpment formed from the walls of a rift valley created as Gondwana broke apart, with its eastern face eroding inland from what were once coastal positions. The Zulu name it uKhahlamba and the Sotho call it Maloti, meaning barrier of up-pointed spears, and the range holds the world's largest collection of San rock art, with between 35,000 and 40,000 individual works across its cave sites.