Wild and Beautiful
Wild and beautiful Marakele is a Big Five reserve with 67 000 hectares of protea-montane veld, gorges, sandstone cliffs, woodland and plains with barely another human in sight. It’s a magical landscape of towering cycads and tree ferns, yellowwoods and cedars.
Marakele is Tswana for ‘place of sanctuary’, so it’s fitting that threatened elephants from Botswana’s Tuli Block and endangered roan antelope have found a home here.
The Marakele National Park was originally called the Kransberg National Park, which was first proclaimed in 1994.
The park is part of the Waterberg area of Limpopo Province, it is also where poet, naturalist and author Eugene Marais was raised and inspired to write works such as ‘Soul of the White Ant’.
By Justin Fox
The Marakele National Park covers the most impressive section of the Waterberg range, rolling out across the bushveld to the north....