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Mapungupwe

In August 2007 we went to Mapungupwe. This park has opened to the public relatively recently. The park is divided into two sections. The one section has luxury accommodation and the other has camping facilities. The western part which has the camping facilities also has a waterhole. When we were there we saw between seventy and a hundred elephants each day. I had the wrong camera lens as I should have used a wide angle lens to capture them all.

Unloading the vehicle.

The rondavel where we stayed.

A view behind the rondavel.

The swimming pool in the rocks.

A wooden walkway above the forest to the river.

One of the roads with a Baobab on the left.

A view from above overlooking the river and a Baobab.

A large Baobab.

A Klipspringer

An inquisitive Elephant.

Elephants at the waterhole.

Elephants in the mud.

A steep track showing the path in the distance.

Elephants enjoying the water

Lovely!

An Impala at the waterhole.

Warthogs drinking in the mud.

A Bushbuck and Vervet Monkeys drinking.

A Bushbuck.

A Waterbuck.

Waterbuck showing the white circle on their rump.

After Mapungupwe we went to Kruger where we saw this Hippo.

Olifants River in Kruger.

Another view of the Olifants River in Kruger.

We plan to visit Mapungupwe again but as it is in a malaria area we would want to visit a few other areas at the same time. (I hate the side effects of the Malaria prophylactics.)