BEZ_DRONE - Kubu Island, Makgadikgadi Pan, Botswana
Kubu Island (Ga'nnyo) is a dry granite rock island located in the Makgadikgadi Pan area of Botswana. The island is located a few kilometers away from Orapa and Letlhakane mining towns and can be accessed through Mmatshumo in the Boteti district. The entire island is a national monument, and is considered a sacred site by the indigenous people of the area.
It is accessible by four wheel drive vehicle and has basic camping facilities. The campsite is run for the benefit of the local population. Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson described the island as just about the most astonishing place I've ever been on the November 4, 2007 episode.
Kalahari Desert: untouched Kubu Island in the Makgadikgadi Pans
In the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, Kubu Island tells the history of our planet. Embark on adventure travel with us to discover the incredible geology of Kubu Island in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana and its mysterious baobab tree – a baobab testament to Botswana’s fascinating geological history.
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Kubu Island is a national monument. There are some archaeological artefacts that are found here at Kubu Island, like the ruins that were built some time in the 17th century by the post Great Zimbabweans. The stone wall is circular in shape and one hundred metres in diameter. Also there are some stone cairns which are said to be markers of the initiation schools. Boys were brought here for initiation. This part behind me is where the local people have maintained their shrine. To go back further, to 900 AD, there we saw some traditions from people who were here before the post Great Zimbabweans came in. We can identify this by stone circles, generally on the outcrop. These people stayed here when the pans were full of water all the way along.
Kubu Island, known as Kubu, lies on the western shoreline of the Sua Pan. Coming from Nata, you drive 115 kilometres. Coming from the south, from Orapa, Letlhakane, it’s 78 or 80 kilometres.
Thousands of years ago this pan was an inland lake with water up to 45 metres deep, which means that the whole outcrop was submerged in the water. Because of tectonic movement, the Earth’s surface tilted and the flow of water from the tributaries shifted eastwards towards the Indian Ocean via the Zambezi and Limpopo. The lake then gradually filled up with wind-blown sand until it became as flat and open as we see it today.
The Sua Pan is also a breeding area for lesser and greater flamingos. The nests are just 16 kilometres from Kubu Island.
During the wet months, we see lots of water birds - pelicans, storks, as well as flamingos as I mentioned earlier. These days we see a lot of tourists from the region and tourists from overseas visiting Kubu. Now it is a tourist destination.
There are some baobab trees, like the one over there. There are about 70 baobab trees that can be seen in this small area. We used to have some small ones like the one you can see coming up, but some of them have been dug out by porcupines. Ostrich eggshell beads and pottery fragments or sheds, and there is a small cave where the local people, or the San people who used to stay here or around in this area, used to come and pray for their ancestors and offer things like snuff, pounded tamboti tree log, as well as putting some small animal skins as offerings to their ancestors.
You can see that this baobab has a reddish-pink colour, because of where it is located. You can see that it is not easy for the roots to reach the soil, because the baobab is on top of the rocks. But the good thing about the baobab is that it can live for a long time. You can see how big this is. When the sun rises in the morning, or when the sun sets, the colour of the baobab looks a bit the same, as well as the rocks. That’s why the sunset here at Kubu Island is very special.
Now we have entered the shrine where the local people, especially the San, or the Khoikhoi people, maintained this shrine here. They have been coming here with their traditional healers with offerings for their ancestors as I said earlier. They would offer things like snuff, beads, and animal skins to their ancestors. The weathering of this rock has broken and closed the entrance of the cave. The leader or the traditional healer would take all of the offerings and go into the cave, and leave them there. By doing so, they believed that their ancestors would give them power, in terms of healing when someone is sick, and it would also allow them to collect some fruit here from the baobab trees, and other fruits from this area.
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Kalahari Desert: untouched Kubu Island in the Makgadikgadi Pans
Country: BOTSWANA
Region: EASTERN DESERT
City: SUA PAN
GPS: 20°53'31.49S 25°49'31.02E
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