I changed my schedule so I would have an easy day after yesterday.
The journey starts well with the Traffic Police following me for 5 km but I stayed with in the speed limits and not overtaking until it was safe to do so.
The fist 15km was on tarred road and the next 30 km on dirt track. Oh what fun – dust storms created by the car. So that I could take photo I let several cars by and what a mistake the dust gets everywhere.
I had visited Rorkes Drift in 2004 so I was not taken by surprise that the layout and the landscape is not as seen in the Film Zulu. The film was shot several kilometres away, however, there are no original buildings left as the British knocked them all down and built a Fort on the site. Later they handed it back to the Swedish Missionary Organisation who built new buildings up but inlaid in the ground stones marking the original buildings and outline if the meille (Maize) bags that the British had used for the defence as you will see in the photos.
After a good look around I went onto Fugative Drift which became famous as a result of the retreat from Isandlwana when Lieutenants Coghill and Melville attempted to escape with the Queens colours back to safety across the swollen Buffalo River but both lost their lives in the attempt.
Buffalo River
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