Limpopo is the only province in South Africa to fall into the tropics. About half of it is officially tropical, so to put matters into perspective here are some of the other areas on the same 23.5 degrees south latitude: Alice Springs in Australia, Sao Paolo in Brazil, The Argentine Pampas, The Kalahari Desert in Botswana, the Namib Naukluft National Park in Namibia. They don’t have much in common except that 200 years ago, as they entered the December Solstice, the sun was entering the constellation of Capricorn. Nowadays it should in theory be renamed the tropic of Sagittarius but it’s probably easier to let things stand.