(2010 FIFA world Cup Organising Committee)

Limpopo province, home to the town of Polokwane, is South Africa's no-man's-land: a hot, thornbush-covered area caught between the dynamic heartland of Gauteng and, to the north, the Limpopo River, which acts as South Africa's border with Zimbabwe and, further west, Botswana. Running through the centre of this no-man's-land is the busy N1 highway, here often called the Great North Road.

The principal attractions of the province lie in its three wild and distinctive mountain escarpments. The most significant of these is the first rise of the Drakensberg Escarpment, on its long and often spectacular sweep through South Africa from north to south, marking the descent from highveld to lowveld.

Source: Roughguides