| Page Views: 57 Last Visit to Northern Province: September, 2008 | Limpopo, formerly called Northern Province by tompt - last update: Nov 9, 2008 |
| Giraffe crossing the road in Mabula Game Reserve |
North of Johannesburg you will find Limpopo province (formerly called Northern Province). This province has the most well known tourist attraction: the Kruger Park. But it is also nice to visit the Waterbergen area. Here you will find lots of private game parks. These parks are not discovered by the large tourist crowds and offer so much more quiet relaxing and less crowded gamedrives.
We visited Mabula, Mabalingwe, Welgevonden and Kololo game reserves.
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| And sometimes there are no signs at all |
They recently changed a lot of names in Limpopo. Sometimes people use the old names and on the signs you will find old and new names at random.
To help you a little bit, some old and new names:
Pietersburg --> Polokwane
Bochum --> Senwabarwana,
Ellisras --> Lephalale
Messina -->Musina (meaning "copper")
Nylstroom --> Modimolle (place of the spirits)
Phalaborwa --> Ba-Phalaborwa
Potgietersrus --> Mokopane (a 1850s chief of the Tlou tribe)
Warmbaths --> Bela-Bela (meaning "cooking place")
Dendron -->Mogwadi
Duiwelskloof --> Ngoako Ramalepe
Hoedspuit --> Marulaneng
Louis Trichard --> Makhado
Naboomspuit --> Mookgopong
Soekmekaar --> Morbeng |
More to come here in the near future.......... |
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