Picnic Sites
Tshokwane Picnic Site - James Stevenson-Hamilton said: “In 1902 a large number of native kraals stood in the vicinity, but a series of drought years had gradually pushed them westwards to the better-watered country outside the reserve. By 1910 only old man Tshokwane himself, with his family, remained. He was a man of between 70 and 80 and a mine of local history.
After Tshokwane’s death, in about 1915, his family moved away, and the place was left entirely to the wild animals.” Afsaal Picnic Site - An old outspan on the Old Transport Road, this modern Kruger National Park picnic site boasts an intact, if crumbling, ox-wagon on site. Food, drinks and snacks are usually available.
Makhadzi Picnic Site - New picnic spot built to serve traffic between Letaba to Giriyondo border post. Contains an interesting series of info boards on the cross-border region and Steinaecker’s Horse (the irregular troop that patrolled the area during the Anglo-Boer War). Old Shawu Picnic Site - Disused picnic site and tea room, named after one of the area’s famous ‘Big Tuskers’. Located near Boulders.
Grobler Plaque is a memorial plaque to Piet Grobler, a relative of Paul Kruger, who introduced the National Parks Act to parliament in 1926....