The Limpopo Province has been named after the great Limpopo River that flows along its northern border. Also known as the Great North, it is home to ancient lands and pre-historic secrets. The Limpopo province straddles the Northern Kruger National Park and so boasts wildlife safaris and nature trails, wide-open bushveld, big-sky country, the ever-present thorn tree and the mystical baobab tree. It offers highveld grassland savannahs to subtropical forests to formidable mountain ranges.

The Limpopo province is South Africa’s northernmost province, bordering onto Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana, and thus making it the ideal entrance to Africa.

The Limpopo province celebrates a rich cultural heritage and at many archaeological sites the mysteries of the past and ancient peoples are still being unearthed. Historians reveal that the first black Africans moved across the Limpopo (into what became known as South Africa) before 300 AD. The Voortrekkers arrived in the early nineteenth century and this part of the world changed forever. Numerous battles between indigenous African people and the Voortrekkers ensued. During apartheid, portions of land were divided into homeland areas. However, today the Limpopo province is united in its aim to offer the best possible welcome for its visitors.