Bakone Malapa Open-Air Museum

Limpopo


Located 9km south of Polokwane on Rte 37 to Chuniespoort, this museum evokes the customs of the Northern Sotho people who lived here 300 years ago. The tour of the recreated village views pot manufacture and tool demonstrations, such as the antelope-horn trumpet and marula-palm-root matches.


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