HISTORY & GEOLOGY

If you enjoy exploring rock formations and going back in time, we suggest you put on your hiking boots and spend a few days in our geological treasure land.

History & Geology - Waterberg Biosphere Reserve - mountains - Waterberg biosphere, Vaalwater, Limpopo, Waterberg, South Africa [© 2009 PaulGodard.com]

The Waterberg is a vast wilderness with an aura of majestic splendour. Like the serenity which it still portrays, the Waterberg was not born in violence, but rather in a gentle and gradual process of formation over eons of time.

History & Geology - Waterberg Biosphere Reserve - dam & Magagamatlala cliff - Magagamatlala, Vaalwater, Limpopo, Waterberg, South Africa [© 2009 PaulGodard.com]


It was subsequently shaped and moulded by violent, shifting subterranean forces. When the rest of the sedimentary deposits around it were later eroded, it was left standing in solitary splendour on the plains which have developed around it.


These sediments are stark proof of the previous existence of vast waterways and lakes which left their traces clearly marked in a legacy of successive deposits of massive conglomerates and deep ravines.


History & Geology - Waterberg Biosphere Reserve - rock face - Vaalwater, Limpopo, Waterberg, South Africa [© 2009 PaulGodard.com] History & Geology - Waterberg Biosphere Reserve - rock formation - Geelhoutkop, Vaalwater, Limpopo, Waterberg, South Africa [© 2009 PaulGodard.com]