Flavour of the Month - September 2014 - S1 Doispane Road (Phabeni - Skukuza) & Nyamundwa Dam

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Flavour of the Month - September 2014 - S1 Doispane Road (Phabeni - Skukuza) & Nyamundwa Dam

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The S1 or Doispane Road starts at Phabeni gate and meets up with the H1-1 after 29 km. Doispane is a historical site 17 km north of Pretoriuskop and is one of the places where ranger Harry Wolhuter used to camp. The word Doispane is derived from the way a Tshongo person prounounced Dustbin.

The road offers all of the big 5 and also wild dogs. Phabeni Gate is one of the newer gates. We have left home at midnight on a few occasions to enter at Phabeni and have been rewarded by some wonderful sightings.

Looking forward to your tales and photos from this road

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Not much of a story to tell, but a map section:

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Phabeni Gate area and Albasini Ruins:



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Nyamundwa Dam:


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Good one, Duke! \O

Saw the big 5 on that road on one afternoon, plus Dr Mabunda! :shock:


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Just inside Phabeni gate two years ago! Finally got the right road here! =O:
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Some film photos from the late eighties/mid nineties, before Phabeni gate was opened.

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The children at Albasini Ruins

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I did this road this past December.

Driving along, we came across a particularly agressive bull elephant plodding down the road, and charging cars that came too close.
Eventually I turned around and headed back to camp.

This wasn't far from where the elephant turned over the car a few days later.
I wonder if this was the same one?


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From our trip in March 2014, when we entered at Phabeni and saw these birds

Pied Kingfishers
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Shikra
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Southern Carmine Bee-eater
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European Bee-eater
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