🙂 Meerkats! Meerkats! Meerkats!
🙁 HOT!!
Friday 16 December 2022 42C! Kalahari Trails
Professor Anne Rasa fell in love with farm in 1977 but it was only in December 2000 that she finally bought and moved to there to start building the Kalahari Trails as it is known today. She was given an injured meerkat by a neighbour. With all her knowledge working with Dwarf Mongese, she took care of the meerkat, helped it heal and released it back into the wild. This was followed by another meerkat and another. It was not long before she was asked by the Northern Cape Authorities if she would be interested in being the Northern Cape Meerkat Sanctuary, of course she agreed, and the rest is history. Unfortunately, Professor Anne fell ill and passed on 15 November 2020. The Kalahari Trails legacy continues as her son Richard Rasa-Phillips has completely taken over the reins. He is a friendly guy who is very enthusiastic about the farm. He is assisted by Mareli who started as an intern at the farm and has returned. She gave us a very knowledgeable tour with the meerkats when we followed them on foot.
It had been quite a drive to and from Augrabies and we only arrived at Kalahari Meerkat sanctuary late just before sunset. The meerkats were all gathered nearby and visited us at our camp site…adorable! James, Sacscha, Miriam and Caitlyn soon arrived …the excitement was palpable!
We were up at 06h30 and ready for our meerkat walk at 07h00 – which was slightly later than usual as there was an inpatient – an inured meerkat who needed feeding before our walk. The meerkats went about their business all around us… then wondered across the Botswana border across the road doe a little staycation!
The kids bought some hats and we chatted to Richard. A great stay and we will definitely use this as a stop on the way to KTP in the future.
