Mapungubwe National Park Reunion Week
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| Baobab Tree |
It’s the first week in December, and the
summer has just fully kicked in here in Limpopo, South Africa. The days are
scorching hot, but somehow the heat only enhances the beauty of the bare red
rocks and lush green Baobab trees here at Mabungubwe National Park.
Mapungubwe
National Park was everybody’s first choice for a GVI SANParks reunion in
December. The park contains a World Heritage site and the “Big Five”. It also
borders Botswana and Zimbabwe, which can be seen from the confluence viewpoint
close to Leokwe Camp.
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| River Confluence view point |
With GVI SANParks interns coming from all
around the country, there was quite some excitement as we got into the Siyaya,
one of GVI’s rustic but awesome busses. After a flat tire and 7 hours of driving we arrived at
Mapungubwe National Park. The
first night we were visited by a male elephant walking through our camp while
we were getting ready for dinner.
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| Mupungubwe hill site |
The rest of the week was filled with elephant
sightings and giraffe and Gemboks. We also visited the Mapungubwe hill World
heritage site, definitely the highlight of the trip. It was at the foot of the
hill where we saw a male rhino, the first and only for the trip.
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| One of the many elephants we saw. |
The trip back to Johannesburg was once
again a true South African adventure. Because of our second flat tire we had to
stop over in a very quaint and small local village. After waiting for approximately
40min, we paid R30 (about $3) to the kind man who fixed our tire for us.
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| Dung Beetle on his dung ball. |
We all said goodbye to one another with the
hopes of keeping in touch. Mapungubwe National Park truly did give us all a
good reunion week.
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