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Machampane Wilderness Trail

by Ralph Pina | Sep 30, 2007 | Limpopo National Park, Mozambique, trails, walking safaris, wilderness trail

Limpopo National Park, Mozambique: September 2007 Circles in the Bush (With apologies to Dalene Matthee…) Machampane Wilderness Camp shares the western bank of the Machampane River with tall fever trees at a pool called Xisivene – which apparently means...

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