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31. Kotor

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There is a pretty direct route from Budva to Kotor, but we chose the one over the mountains, which provides for fabulous views of the Lovcen National Park. Some distance inside the park is the Njegoš Mausoleum, built in the 1970s at the top of the park’s second-highest peak, Jezerski Vrh (1657m). The crypt, reached [...]
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10. the lake district

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If Finland is the land of lakes and forest, today we have seen Finland. Half an hour outside Savonlinna is the Punkaharju area, where we are driving across a narrow land tongue, or perhaps it is an artificial dam, with lakes on both sides. It is quite nice weather, which helps appreciating the landscape – [...]
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Sebaayeni Cave paintings

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Sebaayeni Cave In the Ndedema Gorge and River, part of the Cathedral Peak area of the Drakensberg, some 17 shelters have been identified with Bushmen paintings – San people paintings, really. Sebaayeni Cave is the most important site, with over a thousand individual images. Unfortunately, the photos are not very good, a combination of youthful [...]
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Giant Castle Battle Cave paintings

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The Battle Cave, near the Injasuti camp in the Giant Castle area of the Drakensberg, has been so named because it is one of the rare places where San people – more commonly known as Bushmen – have painted what looks like a battle scene, with arrows flying in all directions. But there is lots [...]
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Giant Castle Main Cave paintings

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The Main Caves are one of the most accessible San rock art sites in the Drakensberg, an easy half hour walk from the nearest accommodation camp. The paintings are distributed overs several caves, and although weathering has taking its toll, many are still in good condition. I am afraid my photography at the time – [...]
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the Cederberg rock paintings

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May 10th, 1991 – Cederberg Before my departure to Southern Africa I had written to the chief forester in the Cederberg area, in search of information about Bushmen paintings in the surroundings (remember this was long before the internet era, and long before universal email communication). He had enthusiastically replied, and told me to come [...]
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the Brandberg rock paintings

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In addition to the White lady rock paintings in the Brandberg (of which I have posted the photos here), there are several other, more difficult to find rock shelters with San paintings – the San are commonly referred to as Bushmen. With a sketch map found in a travel guide at the time – this [...]
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the White Lady

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May 5th – Usakos I have a few days left for rock paintings in Namibia, the recurring theme of this Southern Africa journey. So far I have only seen the rock engravings, at Twyfelfontein and at Peet Alberts Koppie, but now I head for the Brandberg. This is the location of the most famous rock [...]
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Diana’s Vow

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The rock paintings at Diana’s Vow, some 170 km east of Harare on the way to the Eastern Highlands, are not in a cave, but merely under an overhanging rock. They are easily reached, and worth the detour. Although the painted area is quite small, the quality of the images, the detail and the colour [...]
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Eastern Highlands

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April 9th – to the Eastern Highlands The most spectacular scenery of Zimbabwe is to be found in the Eastern Highlands – which had to be inspected, of course, so I drove to the town of Nyanga, near the National Park of the same name. On the way is Diana’s Vow, a farm on which [...]
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