Shumba Camping Site

First stop on your sightseeing itinerary may be Mafikeng Game Reserve (40 minutes’ drive), a sprawling area of open Kalahari grassland and bushveld bisected by the Molopo River. If you’re lucky, you will see most of the Big Five animals, and perhaps even a seriously endangered white rhino – the reserve was the first to initiate electronic tagging to protect them from poachers. You can pay your respects to those who died at Mafikeng Concentration Camp (half an hour) in the Anglo-Boer War. Staying over at Shumba Camping Site is also handy if you’re travelling to or from Botswana, as the border post at Ramatlabama is only 40 minutes’ drive away. If the kids need more entertainment, let them loose in the splash fountains at Aqua Cascading Park (20 minutes’ drive), or have a hike around the lake at Lotlamoreng Dam Cultural Reserve (25 minutes).