Remote access: Pafuri Camp by Return Africa, in partnership with the Makuleke community, overlooks the Luvuvhu River in the far north-east corner of South Africa, close to the border with Zimbabwe and Mozambique
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Limpopo. I have loved the word since reading Kipling’s Just So Stories as a boy. The Elephant’s Child, “full of ‘satiable curiosity”, wants to know what the Crocodile has for dinner, and is sent by the Kolokolo bird for an answer to this question to “the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River”.
At the time, “the Elephant had no trunk”. You can probably guess what happens next — Crocodile tries to do what crocodiles do, and the Elephant’s Child returns home with a long trunk.