A
lthough not known as a big game
reserve, this UNESCO World Heritage
Site just south of Bulawayo is venerated
for its dramatic rock formations: red-tinged
rock outcrops; gigantic, grey, smooth-surfaced
“whalebacks”; and towering **kopjes** of
balancing granite boulders and pillars. This
visual drama is compounded by the thrill of
getting close to some of the world’s highest
concentrations of leopard and rare black
eagles, as well as the chance to explore caves
and rocky overhangs which preserve ancient
San paintings (over 2,000 sites have been
recorded here).
Also here, is the high-altitude grave of archimperialist, Cecil John Rhodes, at a thrilling
location known as the View of the World.
Built between huge granite boulders on a
300-acre concession within Matobo, rooms
at Camp Amalinda (www.campamalinda.com)
are thatched chalets incorporating the very
rock that makes this park famous. Even the
enormous pool is a depression in the granite
whaleback that forms part of the property.
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