Post #2058138

Day 5 of our Mnweni traverse and I had to make a call. We were scheduled to walk for 7 days, but bad weather was moving in which included high winds again as well as the possibility of driving rain. The decision was made to descend from the escarpment using the well-known Rockeries pass and camp further down at the Nguza campsite,m where we should be sheltered from the wind. Thus we left Ledger's Cave and in the drizzling rain made our way over to Rockeries pass. Luckily this pass is one of the easiest in this area. We got to the campsite at around 10:30 and had some elevensees. Instead of setting up camp in the drizzling rain, we decided to continue on for another 3h and walk out. We struggled to reach the local transport that was supposed to pick us up two days later to reschedule - there is basically no mobile reception. However by a stroke of luck we arrived at the pick up point near to the time that the locals school finished and shortly after our driver arrived with a bunch of school kids that he had to drop off. Voila! We had a ride back to where our car was parked at the Mnweni Cultural Centre. What an amazing trip in such an amazing place in the world. #drakensberg #mnweni #southafrica #hiking #wanderlust