Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Twee Rivieren - time for holiday day 8 (8 Oct)

Today we are doing one of the nicer border posts of South Africa: Twee Rivieren is inside the Kgalagadi National Park at the entrance gate with the same name. The Afrikaans name refers to the two rivers (Nossob and Auob) that come together here.

The border post serves both Namibia and Botswana. You do not need to use the border post if you visit the park and return into South Africa. But you can enter here and exit at Mata-Mata into Namibia, or exit into Botswana at several gates, the most well known being Mabuasehube. Rules of the park dictates that you have to stay at least 2 nights inside the park to be able to use these border posts. Due to this, it is only tourists that make use of this border post - no commercial traffic.
  
The border post is situated in a modern building with the 'one-stop shop' concept in mind. It contains the immigration and police services of both South Africa and Botswana, as well as the reception of the National Parks of both countries. The immigration services for Namibia is at the Mata-Mata gate of Kgalagadi.