Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: World Heritage Sites of South Africa (World Heritage Sites of South Africa Travel Guides)

Let Southbound take you back over 1,000 years - through the mists of time to a long forgotten era of southern African splendor and prosperity - and uncover the myths and legends of a noble culture... the kingdom of Mapungubwe on the Limpopo River.

Mapungubwe, the cultural icon that predates, and inspired, Great Zimbabwe

Other sites - Schroda, K2 and Thulamela - and how these cultures mysteriously disappeared

The exquisite Golden Rhino and other archaeological treasures that tell of a thriving trade with the Arabs of the East Coast yet ignored and suppressed by colonial and apartheid powers for ideological reasons

The ecology, climate, fauna and flora

Detailed maps, color photographs, route guides

Comprehensive tourist listings