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iStock-Kamadie Zimbabwe. However, complete castles or palaces you will no longer find here, but untouched remains of palaces, settlements and burial grounds, as well as many astonishing gold artefacts were indeed left behind. The latter are now housed in the Mapungubwe Museum in Pretoria. If you wish to know what the ancient kingdom must have looked like, a visit to nearby Great Zimbabwe (also known as the Zimbabwe Ruins) just across the border will be helpful. Designated the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape by UNESCO, this World Heritage Site in Limpopo Province near the Zimbabwean border, today comprises the ancient Kingdom of Mapungubwe and the Mapungubwe National Park. Upon this open savannah, dotted with rocky outcrops and hills, near the confluence of the two rivers, this kingdom once flourished, being one of Southern Africa’s earliest and most sophisticated kingdoms between 1075 and 1220. After this brief period the area was abandoned. Established at Mapungubwe Hill, the kingdom was home to some 5,000 people that became a powerful and wealthy tribe that knew how to work with gold and traded ivory and gold with Eastern cultures such as China and India. It is here that archaeologists found the famous golden rhino and other evidence of this wealthy African kingdom. The kingdom formed the first stage of what would later become the Kingdom of Zimbabwe further north. Much evidence has been unearthed here of special sites for initiation ceremonies, household activities, sites for other social functions, cattle kraals and the accommodation of royals and commoners. Among some twenty-four skeletons that were unearthed in a burial ground on Mapungubwe hill, two were believed to be a king and queen of Mapungubwe. Walkways and lookout platforms have been created from where visitors can view key points of the kingdom. The area now falls within the Mapungubwe National Park administered by SANParks, which with the Tuli Block in Botswana and the Tuli Safari area in Zimbabwe, forms part of the Limpopo- Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area, now officially known as Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area. Fairy-tale castles on the beach If it’s fairy-tale castles and palaces and their intriguing stories that tickle your fancy, you have to take a trip to Knysna on the Garden Route and its magical kingdom on the beach. I am talking of course about the intriguing, mysterious castles of Noetzie. Just a ten-minute drive from Knysna at the mouth of the Noetzie River you will come to the edge of a high hill and discover, far below, a secluded cove boasting a pristine whitesanded beach, a quiet estuary at the mouth of a river with dark water, a large variety of indigenous flora and fauna and, the big prize, an eclectic collection of stone-walled, turreted and fanciful castles. Who are the kings and queens who might live in them, you may well wonder, before engaging the very steep walk or drive down. Well, there are none and no ancient battles ever 92 |ISSUE 16|www.mzanzitravel.co.za | MZANZITRAVEL
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