Makuleke has it all. Located in the very North-East corner of South-Africa, bordering Zimbabwe and Mozambique, it is part of Kruger NP.
The diversity of landscapes is astounding: Such different areas so close you can combine them into a single walk: Great floodplains, fever tree forests, a jackelberry forest, 2 different rivers, and a wealth of koppis full of ancient Baobab trees.
This is consequently matched by the wildlife diversity: Makuleke has 75% of all the species found in Kruger NP. South-African birders come to find the guys they would normally have to travel to East-Africa for.
The Makuleke people are the Shangaan, a Tsonga tribe that were the first to legally claim back the title to their land from the government, after they had been violently evicted when the Apartheid regime founded Kruger park. They have chosen to maintain it as a wilderness area for eco-tourism participating in the resulting economic opportunities.
