Leaving Durban and Heading to Drakkensburg Mountains!

Scenery on the drive to the hotel

more scenery

Mountains!

View from the main house of the hotel

Those little buildings are our chalets - this was the general property of the hotel

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We left Durban this morning. Marita scheduled a talk with some lady about being a South African, something, at the hotel for two hours this morning. I really did not want to go because I would have rather spent that time exploring Durban a little more before we left but we did not have a choice. Fortunately for me, I was sick along with several other people and needed to get medicine from the pharmacy. Christine also had pink eye and needed to see a doctor in order to get medicine so we headed out with Ben to run our errands while everybody else had to sit through the talk. Apparently it was pretty good but whatever - I got medication (that I am still using) for Mia and I that allowed us to sleep. That is all that matters.





Upon leaving Durban, we had a 4 hour drive to the Drakkensburg Mountains where we were staying at the Mount Aux Sources Hotel. The drive was gorgeous. I tried to stay awake for most of it because I wanted to see as much of the country as possible and that obviously cannot be accomplished with your eyes closed. All of a sudden we were out of Durban and in this gorgeous mountaineous area. It did not look like anything you think you would see in South Africa, besides the Zulu huts. It looked like I was in North Carolina or England. I kept thinking that I saw scenery from the new Pride and Prejudice when we were driving by. It was absolutely gorgeous!





After a long hall, we arrived at our hotel and I must say that it was absolutely amazing! We stayed in these chalets - three people to a chalet when you could actually fit 6. I roomed with Sarah and Mia (we were the sick house). And this hotel was just in such a remote location where mountains were all around. There were no restaurants, pharmacies, nothing, to be found within a 30 minute drive - just mountains. The dinner we had at the restaurant was buffet style and man was it amazing. Oh and we had this great pool available to us and a human chess set where you actually move the chess pieces around the board (they were fairly large and very young children were playing chess, accurately I might add). A thunderstorm rolled in and the lightning was so amazing! I wish I could have caught it with my camera. Tonight we are just relaxing. Tomorrow morning we are going for a nice hike! I cannot wait!