Cathkin Peak and
Champagne Castle

Unmistakeable Cathkin Peak is the most recognizable landmark of this area, named by one of the early Scottish settlers after a town near his native Glasgow.

There is a profusion of San paintings in the area with the Ndedema Gorge in the north the richest with 17 shelters and 4,000 paintings.

Bushmen were thought to have all been killed by farmers and bounty hunters in the last century, but a cave was discovered in 1926 containing a bow and quiver with a freshly laid grass bed. Perhaps these diminutive people still remain in their mountain fastness.

Scenic walks include Intunja (the eye of the needle), a small mountain with a hole in it. Champagne Castle was so named because the bottle of bubbly carried up by the first people to ascend was broken - inadvertently christening the mountain.