Poms in Africa: Part III
After quite a long drive, during which Henk and Annalet peeled off to go home through Swaziland, we
entered the Kruger National Park near Massingir. It is known on the Mozambique side by the rather
grand title of The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Although we traversed a good many miles of bush,
it was pretty bland to be honest and more or less empty, as far as we could tell. The Giriyondo Border
Post is slightly bizarre in that the only fences are around the compound, to keep animals away from the
people. Animals are not required to demonstrate citizenship. The only frontier is inside the building -
like a series of Rondawels - and once we came out the other end we were back in South Africa. Another
stretch of rather bland bush brought us to Letaba Lodge, to meet up once more with Mike Carver and
family. I wrote the forum blog that evening with a Bush Baby somewhere over my head.
From Letaba we really did split up.
Brian’s aToyota had developed a
fault and Ben and Rika – with a roof
tent – took a chance on Satara
Lodge, to the south. Uncertain if we
could book in to camp at Satara,
Team Brigid (as she has just re-
minded me was the proper name for
our outfit) headed north to Mopani,
where we took a lodge instead of
camping. After a long day in the
saddle and about an hour before
dusk, we crossed 23’ 27”South - the
Tropic of Capricorn – simply be-
cause we could, then looped back
round to the lodge before the gates
shut. Apart from Elephants drinking
and splashing in the large concrete
water tanks provided for them and
masses of Impala, we witnessed a
huge herd of Buffalo. Their dust al-
most blotted out the setting sun and
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