Straddling the Olifants: wilderness walking trails

(another Kruger safari) Olifants Wilderness Trail, Kruger National Park The African bush has been calling for a while, so we packed up and headed 2000 km north-east for Kruger and our favourite means of really experiencing the bush: wilderness walking trails. Our first trail was the Olifants Wilderness Trail, one of Kruger’s seven and one [...]

Machampane Wilderness Trail

Limpopo National Park, Mozambique: September 2007 Circles in the Bush (With apologies to Dalene Matthee…) Machampane Wilderness Camp shares the western bank of the Machampane River with tall fever trees at a pool called Xisivene – which apparently means “deep pool”. The wilderness trail experience that runs out of the camp is similarly structured to [...]