The Marakele Nation­al Park in the heart of the Water­berg Moun­tains, as its Tswana name sug­gests, has become a ‘place of sanc­tu­ary’ for an impres­sive vari­ety of wildlife due to its loca­tion in the tran­si­tion­al zone between the dry west­ern and moister east­ern regions of South Africa.