Lebombo
October 17, 2009 by Jean KZN
I started a scenic tour through the Lebombo Mountains with a visit to a rural Zulu homestead yesterday. It was one of those beautiful sunny early summer days when we left but two and a half hours later when we reached the t-junction overlooking Jozini dam I ended up giving the guests a choice - straight back to the hotel or an extra trip to the dam wall with beautiful views of the gorge. The choice was needed because approaching fast was our first storm of the season - I do not think that they had any idea what our storms are like because for all my discription they chose to drive on (I think that they thought I was exagerating).
The storm was magnificent with great flashes of lightning and huge rolling thunder cracks combined with rain so heavy one could hardly see the road - it took us about half an hour to do the last eleven kilometers of the drive to the hotel in an open safari vehicle. Luckely I was just happy to see the first good rain of the season and the guests were blown away by the sheer scale and magnificence of a real african storm.