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Sani Pass

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September 27th 2012
Our first adventure on the trip was to take a jeep 4x4 up the Drakensberg Mt. in to the county of Lesotho at the top of the mountains. Drakensberg means dragon and the mountains look like a dragon's back. The Sani pass was used as a trading route long ago and the Sani people who live at the top of the Pass would travel down to trade with the South African tribes. Today the road is used for tra ... read more

Africa » South Africa

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more