Second day of Road Trip: Upington to Augrabies Waterfall.
The second day of our Road trip took us from Upington to the Augrabies Waterfall. We started off by crossing the Orange river, which is the largest river in South Africa, although it looks small, it is split up in a few branches, you will see in a later post where the river flows in full force.
As we went along this bright tower became visible in the distance, a bright beacon of light in this dry area.
This tower is actually the Scatec Solar plant, producing 86 MWp of electricity, you can read more about this by clicking on the link.
The roads in this area are long with nothing for miles and miles, just this dry landscape.
This dry world is the home of the *Sociable Weaver birds. These birds build some of the largest structures built by birds in the world. These nests can house up to a 100 birds and consists of various chambers inside. These nests provide shelter and shade against the heat of the environment.
You can read more about these interesting birds by clicking the links below
Sociable Weaver
Sociable Weaver 2
In the town of Kakemas we stopped at the Pienk Padstal (Pink Farmstall) on which I will write a bit more, for #MarketFriday as hosted by @dswigle
After quite a long drive we reached our next stop the Augrabies Waterfall, which means Place of Great Noise in the original local Khoi language. (It is not really such a long drive, but we did drive a bit further, due to taking a wrong turn) I plan to write more on our stay there and post a video of the falls.
I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.
I drove past Scatec Solar back in March on a job trip in Upington, Scatec Solar is quite iconic can be seen from over 70km away, I had my eyes on it and wondering what it is and fortunately we drove passed.
Yes, you see it long before you get to Upington!!
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The view at Augrabies Waterfall is so beautiful😃
Wow!! That is some birdhouse! Can you imagine how long it took to build that? I cannot for the life of me. Sirius saves the day, yes?
That waterfall is amazing! No lie! The power generated by that is beyond belief! This has been such a lovely trip! Thank you for sharing it!
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