South Drakensberg Mountains

The southern Drakensberg is a country of high grasslands, rocky shelters and deep valleys. San hunters moved between the high mountains in summer and the lower valleys in winter, following game through the changing seasons. Their paintings survive beneath overhanging rock, portraying animals and people in a tradition that continued into the nineteenth century. On the western side of the escarpment, the shelters of Sehlabathebe form part of this wider world of mountain rock art.