Masorini Picnic site

[Richprins]

Hope it's not the same leopard from last year that is back?

[Flutterby]

Thought the same thing RP.

[Peter Betts]

Hope it's not the same leopard from last year that is back?

It is ..and she is doing well according to my Phalaborwa mates who go in daily before work in town (Thats not right !!)

[Flutterby]

She was seen there again yesterday.

[Alf]

She is keeping to the rules and will only eat her food at dedicated picnic areas

[Flutterby]

[Lisbeth]

A choosy lady

[Lisbeth]

The leopard was not there a couple of days ago

Those pics are more or less the same that were already posted by Twigga.

This site is situated some 11km from the Phalaborwa Gate, on the road to Letaba. As the letters PI-NE appear on the trigonometric beacon, it was incorrectly believed to be another name for Masorini (Piene).
The ancestors of the Baphalaborwa stayed here. They made a living from the melting of iron. The smelters lived on the lower terrace at Masorini and the forgers in the higher terrace, because they had a higher standing in society. Today Masorini is a restored village with stonewalls, grinding stones, potsherds and the remains of foundries, including a smelting furnace, which date back to the 19th century.
There are also some implements dating back to the Stone Age. This village offers an insight into the economy and technology employed by the hunter-gathers, and later Iron Age people. The northeastern Sotho tribe that inhabited this village were known as the ba-Phalaborwa.
From the Masorini hilltop, there is a splendid view of Shikumbu Hill where the Chieftain lived. In the shock waves following the rise of the Zulu kingdom early in the 19thCentury, Masorini ended as a settlement.

James, the guide at the place where the elders got together to discuss and drink marula beer

[Alf]

I have never been past the braai's next to the parking area. We have always used this place as a toilet break

[Flutterby]

Us too Alf.