One place I certainly want to go back to after #lockdown 💙🍃 . . Just to the south of Kimberley is a hidden gem of a national park by the name of #Mokala. In Setswana, this means the 'Kingdom of Thorn Trees', and the park is the most perfect example of savanna-thornsveldt you will find anywhere in the Northern Cape, or for that matter anywhere else in South Africa. . . Utter natural splendour and superb wildlife encounters are virtually guaranteed, with endangered game as the park's main focus. Sable and roan antelope, aardwolf, caracal, aardvark, African hedgehog, tsessebe ... you are bound to tick a host of peculiar beasties off your must-see mammal list. . . The @isuzusa #KBbakkie was the perfect vehicle for this savanna paradise, with enough height to allow easy game viewing and nonsense go-anywhere gumption. And there was certainly no complaints regarding leg room from the kids in the back. . . We ventured to the unfenced Haak-and-Steek Camp Site, where all five of us crammed into a tent set upon the edge of the water hole ... This was proper Africa: only us, the night jars, a star-struck sky, howling jackal and contorted camel-thorn trees silhouetted against the flicker of the camp fire. . . Oh ja, there was the midnight black rhino that came snorting right up to the tent just after midnight. This made for a few tense moments, but he bolted once I shone the torch to warn him away. Truly a nature experience no money can buy! . . #IsuzuSa #WithYouForTheLongRun #WithYouWayaWaya #mokala #sanparks #NorthernCape #noordkaap #nature #naturalimmunity #oZoneAfrica #AndBreathe (at Mokala National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGXXIPpPfW/?igshid=b9zkco17pist
