I arrived at
And had a nice breakfast at
with a view
It would be better to remove this one as I was there on Feb. 18th 2019
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The toilet was not exactly shining, but not that dirty either
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On the way out I noticed this
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Very old to say the least
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Someone asked somewhere if they still have movies at Letaba, obviously yes
We all tend to pay little attention to the very common animals, but these Egyptian geese are in fact very pretty
I did a piece of the H1-6 and found the Das Neves Cross, which I had not noticed before
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A few kilometres from Letaba, on the S95, stands a very old leadwood tree, which has a typical Portuguese Cross carved into it. It is not certain who carved it or what the significance of it was. One possibility is that it was carved by Diocleciano Fernandes das Neves who arrived in Lourenço Marques on October 5 1855 at the age of 25, and returned to Portugal some 13 years later. During those 13 years, he traded in the interior and hunted elephants. His trade route passed through the current Kruger National Park.
It is possible that he carved the cross on his journey in 1860/ 61 en route to the Soutpansberg. Das Neves' own records gives us a glimpse into such journeys - 150 porters were required for the trade goods, a further 68 for the camping equipment, and the group was "protected" by 17 heavily armed elephant hunters. An alternative explanation is that the cross might have been carved by one of the Portuguese soldiers who carried post for João Albasini between Lourenço Marques and Goedewensch.
The rain had made the river swell quite a lot. All the small islets on both sides of the bridge had gone