The last few days we’ve been doing the Midlands Meander at the foot of the Drakensberg mountains. We’ve driven several of the routes. The entire area is a beautiful place full of thatched cottages, trellises, flower gardens, and village-style specialty shops—cheese, wine, chocolate. Surprisingly, it’s not far from Durban, but it feels a million miles away from the city.
The Midlands is also the area where Nelson Mandela was captured in 1962. We visited the Mandela Capture Site Museum on our first day here. The multimedia exhibit space was immersive and moving, as was the long walk to freedom pathway outside. As you walk down the path there are milestones from Mandela’s life, finally you arrive to see an elusive image of Mandela just come into focus from the cut metal posts.
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| A map of Midlands Meandering |
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The Mandela sculpture at the end of the walk
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| A visit to the Wine Cellar (Next we went to Marrakech Cheese. Both were incredible and the people so nice!) |
We always seem to have such wonderful dog companions each place we stay. This is Milo:
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| At Qambathi Mountain Lodge, Kamberg Valley |
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