Cultural Crossroads Tour

Mogalakwena is a creative hub set in a peaceful wilderness amidst fever trees and fragrant citrus orchards, upstream from the confluence of the Mogalakwena and Limpopo rivers, which offers ample opportunities for varied bush as well as creative experiences.

Unleash your innate creativity while interacting with local crafters and experiencing their traditional skills at Mogalakwena, an Artist’s Retreat.

Choose from a number of daily activities, such as: Basket weaving, where you source raw materials and learn traditional techniques; Pottery, where you dig the clay, coil pots and pit-fire your work alongside resident potters; Embroidery, where you practice indigenous designs; or Beading, where your try your hand at local techniques.

Visit the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation which nurtures intrinsic cultural skills and creates employment for local Pedi women or the interpretive Research Centre for African Ecology and Anthropology, both pioneered by Dr Elbé Coetsee.

At Mapungubwe World Heritage Site, explore the remains of a long vanished civilization that is the earliest known kingdom in sub Saharan Africa.

At the crossroads of north/south and east/west routes, this culturally significant site controlled trade to India and China from around 900 to 1300 AD onwards.
Take a guided visit around this enigmatic hub, whose star attraction, the Golden Rhino is a tangible symbol of past glories and the African Renaissance.