Location

On the western Mpumalanga escarpment, 18 kilometres to the north of the N4 national highway.

A charming mountain village renowned for the trout-streams of the area. The place was named not, of course, for its dreariness - it's anything but that - but after one Wolterius Dull, an early Dutch immigrant. Its two claims to modest fame are its railway station, at 2,077 metres above sea level the highest in Southern Africa; and its proximity to Die Berg, the region's highest peak. It also boasts a quite charming hotel and a B&B establishment.

Highlights

There's trout-fishing, of course - keen anglers come from afar to try their luck in the mountain streams, and to get away from it all in the loveliest of surroundings. Some of the landscapes are as wildly romantic as anything that Walter Scott described in his novels of the Scottish Highlands - there are high mountains and deep ravines, and icy little watercourses that, here and there, turn into crashing cataracts. Nesting in the area are three types of crane: the blue (which is South Africa's national bird), the wattle (endangered) and the crowned.

Nearest towns

Belfast lies just off the N4 directly to the south; Lydenburg to the north-east (take the R540); Middelburg off the N4 to the south-west.

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