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Tea at Cathedral Peak Hotel, Cathedral Peak Nature Reserve, Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park

Tea at Cathedral Peak Hotel, Cathedral Peak Nature Reserve, Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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View from top of Table Mountain looking towards the Cape Peninsula showing Cape floral Fynbos and Restios. Table Mountain, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa

A color photograph from the top of Table Mountain in Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town South Africa. The photograph shows the diverse cape floral fynbos including Restios (Cape Reeds) which survive the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Cape Weather. Fynbos meaning fine-leaved plants is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located on the Western Cape of South Africa. This area is predominantly winter rainfall coastal and mountainous areas with a Mediterranean climate. The fynbos ecoregion is within the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. In fields related to biogeography, fynbos is known for its exceptional degree of biodiversity and endemism, consisting of about 80% (8, 500 fynbos) species of the Cape floral kingdom where nearly 6, 000 of them are endemic

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San Pass, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park is in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa, covering 242, 813 ha of area. The park includes Royal Natal National Park, a provincial park, and covers part of the Drakensberg, the highest mountain range in Southern Africa. The park and the adjoining Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho are part of the Maloti Drakensberg Park, which was first declared a World Heritage Site on 30 November 2000. It is described by UNESCO as having exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts.. the sites diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally threatened species, especially birds and plants also contains many caves and rock shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara

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