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Waterfalls and wildflowers: Hiking South Africa’s highest mountains
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About 320km from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.
PHOTO: IHSAAN HAFFEJEE/NYTIMES
Tim Neville
Johannesburg – The stress of rush-hour chaos on unfamiliar highways fades the farther I drive from Johannesburg, until all that remains is an empty straightaway and the hum of my rented Renault.
Waves of farmland roll into the occasional ranch house surrounded by a shelterbelt of trees. If I ignore the eucalyptus, I can envision the Midwest.
