Giants Playground & Quiver Tree Forest

We visited Giants Playground, a series of formations and a rock maze, just outside of Keetmanshoop this afternoon. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a group of young giants frolicking amongst stone formations, leaping from pedestal to pedestal and crouching behind the stones during a game of hide and seek. This geological phenomenon is named Giant’s Playground because of the way the dole rite boulders have been packed as though someone was playing an over-the-top version of Jenga. The Quiver Tree takes its name from its Afrikaans name Kokerboom, which is a reference to the Indigenous San people’s practice of hollowing out the tubular branches to make quivers for their arrows. The trees are home to large sociable weaver nests and some of the oldest trees are between 200 and 300 years old and have hosted generations of weaver birds. To end this wonderful day we saw two cheetahs catching some shade under a tree as we left the forest and headed to our accommodation for the night.Read more