Hillside Dams…

A great place for a family outing.

Its amazing how different the rock pools look with water in them!

 

Matopos vista…

These two photos are taken about half way up a kopjie in the Matopos very near to Lumeni Falls.

People’s fields are laid out with contour ridges to stop erosion of the thin granite soils.

With the heavy rains, the water slowly seeps out of these hillslopes and the bigger rivers they feed, run year round. Matopos is a lovely place for trampers and serious climbers.

 

Matopos Roads…

Roads wind around the kopjies in the Matopos – some of them are HUGE.

And sometimes when they cant do anything else, they have to go THROUGH a kopjie! In the photo above, the road has been paved.

And here, the rocks have been blasted apart by dynamite!

In the foreground, you can see our car tracks – here the road is where you find it!

The “gateway to Matopos…”

I took the above photo of the road directly in front of the car…