The Territory
In the heart of the Limpopo
The territory
Where the savannah meets history
We are on a privately owned territory of 5,800 hectares without internal fences, located in the very heart of the Limpopo, South Africa's northernmost province, 30 km south of the double border with Botswana and Zimbabwe.
This region has remained the wildest in the country, but also one of the most pleasant, as it is malaria-free.
The area is entirely wooded, with several natural waterholes where you can even hear the frogs. The vegetation ranges in height from one metre for the low thorn bushes to around ten metres for the tallest trees.
An ancestral vegetation
The exception in size is the baobab, found scattered throughout the bush and whose existence dates back more than 40 million years; it reaches some twenty metres in height and can reach 5 metres in diameter at around 100 years old, and specimens over 2,000 years old can be found.
The Sagole baobab, on the other side of Musina, is 10.80 m in diameter, and its crown, 20 m up, is more than 40 m across. Legend has it that God planted the baobab upside down at the Creation, and the layout of its branches really does give it that look.
Among the most widespread trees are the mopane, a tree for fire and construction, the marula, whose fruit is used to make the famous Amarula, but also the giraffe thorn (giraffe acacia) and a multitude of other varieties: knobthorn, red bushwillow, leadwood, etc. The leaves of these trees are an important source of food for the animals.
