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Drakensberg Mountains
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Why visitors come

Popular activities include sightseeing, mountain climbing, hiking, birding, skiing, photography, and trout fishing, though many visitors turn up simply to unwind in this natural wonder.

Name

Drakensberg Mountains is technically a redundancy. The Afrikaaners named by combining draken ("dragon") and berg ("mountain").

Nickname

If you want people to think you are a local, call the Drakensberg Mountains "the Berg".

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