I was sad to leave Kruger National Park. Having driven three-fourths the length of the park, we had to move on with the rest of our trip. Next stop...Mapungubwe (approximately...ma-poon-goob-wee) National Park. Most entrances to any kind of game park are quite interesting. After checking in, we still had to drive another 11 miles to reach our campsite near the Limpopo River.
Mama warthog and her baby greeted us.
The ubiquitous impalas were all about us.
A baboon resting on the anthill was completely oblivious or shy.
The ablution block in our campground included a kitchen.
It's cocktail hour.
A small Chobe Bushbuck wandered around the various campsites. We think it was used to getting handouts. Our neighbors, frequent visitors to this park, had not seen this antelope before. After dark, our neighbors showed us a florescent scorpion using a blue light that made its home in a crevice in the trunk of the huge tree we had camped under.
In the morning we took a short drive through our section of the national park. The Limpopo River is part of the boundary between South Africa and Zimbabwe and South Africa and Botswana. The opposite shore here is Zimbabwe.
Many blue wildebeest were feeding.
A Kori Bustard, the national bird of Botswana, strutted onward ignoring us and the baboon.
These unusual nests were very plentiful. I think they are a kind of weaver bird nest.
A warthog gets down on its knees to feed. Click on the photo to get a closer view of his knees.
Oh boy, there are more shy zebras here.
We will be crossing the Limpopo River into Botswana later today.
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