We rode back to Johannesburg, but with a slight change in route for the first part, along R536 towards Lydenburg, named the “Highlands Meander” and along the Dragons Mountain (highest mountain range in South Africa) and Blyde River Canyon: the Canyon is over 4,500 feet (1,372 m) deep.
Coming down one of the mountains
Coming down one of the mountains
Blyde River Canyon
We are driving up among the clouds
View from God's Window
The van we rode to Kruger Park and back
Blyde River Canyon, Bourke's Luck Potholes 
Looking straight down from the bridge
Long tailed Macaque monkey crossing at the top of the falls
Macaque monkey running across the bridge on the railing
Bourke's Luck Potholes 
Can you see the two tiny people at the top of the falls in the middle of the picture. That's how high these are.
Different group of macaques running across the other bridge, again on the railing.
Bourke's Luck Potholes 
Velvet Monkey perched on a roof as we exited the area.River of Tears and River of Joy meet at the Pot Holes. Adam told us the following story: Afrikaans were leaving the area after the Boer war, trying to find new lands in Mozambique to re-establish their farms. They told their loved ones that if they were not back within a certain time it meant they had died. They did not come back within the allocated time so their families renamed it River of Tears. A few months later, their family members returned, hence River of Joy.
Majestic views
Three Rondavels promontory
The Three Rondavels promontory of the Drakensberg escarpment
Orange faced lizard at the Rondavels
Green valleys belowWe rejoined the N4 and retraced our route to Johannesburg from there.
Finally got a shot of the shanty towns
Another big electrical storm just before arriving in Jo-burg.
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