Heading up past Lone Rock, and more San rock paintings, we
made our way through the bush to Sugar Loaf Gap where a good scramble brought us
out above the escarpment. After climbing Sugar Loaf Hill we continued on over
rough grass to Cold Hill from where we had a good view of the Amphitheatre. The
Amphitheatre is widely regarded as one of the most impressive cliff faces on
earth. It is over 3 miles in length and has precipitous cliffs rising
approximately 4,000feet along its entire length. The bottom of the valley floor
is over 6,000 feet below the highest point of the amphitheatre (the summit being
over 10,000 feet above sea level).
Not too far from the hotel we get a quick glance of a baboon in the grass . . .
but the chameleon . . .
gives us more time to photograph him
San Rock Art . . .
with the strange figures at Lone Rock
Time to set off again . . .
and Sugar Loaf Gap comes into view
Part way up the gap . . .
and again from higher up
The plateau provides . . .
a good spot for a photo
From the summit of Sugar Loaf the plateau we were on is very clear . . .
and Sugar Loaf from the opposite side
Lunch stop on the way to Cold Hill . . .
from where the Amphitheatre, between the two buttresses, seems quite close
One for the album
From a different vantage point the Metsi-Matsho Dam can be seen
Heading back down Sugar Loaf Gap . . .
and back to the hotel