Kiripotib farm and African Kirikara tours

A magical drive from Kiripotib into the nearby, mesmerizing rich red dunes of the Kalahari. All around is extraordinary vegetation, flourishing in this harsh, arid yet beautiful semi desert area. As you travel gently past many lovely acacias, with huge social weavers nests hanging from huge camelthorn trees, past shepherd trees – so called for the welcoming shade they offer those tending small stock – and through this spectacular bush savannah, the landscape is all at once filled with vistas of dune sand, steepling out of the veldt, the contrast of red against green wondrous to behold.

Scenery takes the honours, nature at its prettiest but game too enjoys this 4000 hectare area of true, pristine Kalahari. Oryx, Springbok, Steenbuck and Kudu can be seen gently grazing. Of great interest too will surely be the possibility of seeing a tribe of wild horses – thought to now number sixty - and almost certainly related to the famous feral desert steeds of Aus in the Namib. In the eighties, during a prolonged period of terrible debilitating drought, Nature Conservation feared that these critical conditions might possibly lead to the extinction of these fascinating wild horses from the desert areas around Aus. So they offered these horses – at no cost – to anyone who could organise transport at their own expense and collect them from the Namib. Hence the horses now are thriving amongst the usually plentiful stipagrostis grasses in the Kalahari close to our guest farm.

So where better than in this mystical dune land to picnic, or to enjoy a sundowner, depending on the time of day we drive there. We are confident, though, that this is an experience that will stir your senses, settle deep into your memory.

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