Mapungubwe & Tshugulu Eco Trail

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We were standing on the cliff edge of the lozenge-shaped hill kingdom. This, according to our mischievous guide Cedric Sethlako, was the ‘proposal spot’. Here, he said, a suitor would make his lady love teeter while deciding on a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ to his marriage proposal (bones at the foot of the precipice were testament to wrong decisions made in the past).

We were standing on the cliff edge of the lozenge-shaped hill kingdom. This, according to our mischievous guide Cedric Sethlako, was the ‘proposal spot’. Here, he said, a suitor would make his lady love teeter while deciding on a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ to his marriage proposal (bones at the foot of the precipice were testament to wrong decisions made in the past). ‘Then,’ Cedric deadpanned, ‘they’d have to drink Red Bull, because it gives you wings.’ Followed by a hearty chuckle and an admission that the entire story was untrue.

Besides this entertaining heritage tour, though, try the testing Tshugulu Eco Route or the shorter Kanniedood and Khongoni 4×4 trails; walk the Tree Canopy Boardwalk alongside the Limpopo; and take in the panoramas onto the merging of two mighty rivers.

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