South Africa: Inside a Gaint Baobab - Gravelotte
Inside a gaint Baobab near Gravelotte on our way to the Kruger National Park, December 2015.
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The Sunland Big Baobab | The Bar inside the Trunk of the Tree
The Sunland Big Baobab | The Bar inside the Trunk of the Tree
The Sunland ‘Big Baobab’ is in Modjadjiskloof in Limpopo Province, South Africa and is famous internationally for being the widest of its species in the world. Africa is symbolised by these magnificent trees. The Sunland Big Baobab is carbon dated to be around 6000 years old. The Sunland Baobab has even made the front page of the Wall Street Journal! When baobabs become a thousand years old, they begin to hollow inside. In the Big Baobab this has resulted in wonderful caverns and caves, where the world famous Baobab Tree Bar and Wine Cellar now amaze visitors. The tree bar can accommodate more than 60 people!
Carbon dating has been used to estimate the Big Baobab’s age at ± 6000 years. To put this in perspective the tree is possibly older than the Giza Pyramids and was certainly here thousands of years before the birth of Jesus Christ. When the first leaves sprouted the Sahara Desert was still lush and green and our Iron Age ancestors were roaming the land.
Sunland’s Baobab is 22 meters high, and is some 47 meters in circumference. It is still (and is likely to remain so) the record holder for the species, according to the SA Dendrological Society. In 1993 the van Heerdens cleared out the hollow centre of the tree, removing masses of compost build up, to uncover the floor about a meter below ground level. In the process they found evidence of both Bushmen and Voortrekkers, attesting to the historical importance of the tree.
They squared off a natural vent in the trunk to make a door and installed a railway sleeper pub inside the trunk, complete with draft beer, seats, a music system and space for nearly 60 people. A wine cellar has been installed in a second hollow, with a constant temperature of 22° C, ventilated by natural vents. The tree blooms gloriously in spring. It is home to many bird species, including two pairs of owls.
Sunland Baobab Tree, Limpopo Province — It took several people to stand around the tree joining hands - note its relative size next to average human beings, Quite impressive.
Inside the Sunland Baobab tree, Limpopo Province A small bar can be found inside the Baobab Tree.
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South Africa - Pub in a tree trunk
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The Tzaneen area in the Transvaal in South Africa is famous for its rich fertile soil and old cycad forests, but one tourist attract ion seems a little out of place, the Baobab bar.
In 1992 the van Heerden family began to transform the big tree into a pub. Built into the famous bulbous trunk of the boabab, the bar is named the Sunland Pub.
Apart from the distinctive shape of the tree, this baobab is far from ordinary. It has been measured as the widest baobab in the world. The tree is 46.8 metres in width and was carbon-dated by a tree expert who believes it is at least 6000 years old.
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WS baobab tree;
Sun shining through branches;
Pans down trunk;
People walking through gate towards the tree;
People go inside tree;
People sitting around inside tree at a bar;
Young boy with women seated;
Pan around ceiling of tree;
CU man with drink and cigarette in hand;
SOT Dougie van Heerden, owner, There is another tree somewhere on the south-west border that has got a toilet in the tree and there's the whole community living around the tree and there's toilet in the baobab tree and it's world famous. People from overseas tell me about it and I thought about building a toilet in the wine cellar and a pub up here and then I have the best of both worlds. But my wife wouldn't let me so it ended up as a wine cellar.
Wine racks hanging from inside tree;
SOT Dougie van Heerden, owner, It's also claimed it's the largest circumference baobab in the world at 46.8 metres, there's tree down the road about 200 kilometres, it's about 43 metres in circumference.
Exterior tree.
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There’s a Pub Inside a 6,000 years old Tree
The baobab trees in South Africa are spectacular and the 6,000 year old Sunland Baobab in the Limpopo Province is no exception. Its impressive height of 22 metres and circumference of 47 metres make it the largest of its species.
It does however house something even more extraordinary – a fully functioning pub, complete with seating and a bar serving draft beer and wine. There’s even a dartboard attached to its knobbly interior.
S.African villagers tap into trend for 'superfood' baobab
The fruit of the mighty African baobab tree is gaining popularity around the world thanks to its nutritional properties, and producers in South Africa are working hard to meet demand. The seeds and chalky powder inside the pods have become a global health craze celebrated for their vitamin-packed properties and now used in everything from flavoured soda, ice cream and chocolate to gin and cosmetics.
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Sunland Baobab is a well-known enormous baobab tree in South Africa. It is one of the largest baobabs in South Africa with a circumference of 47 meter, or 33 meter, depending on who you believe, and a height reaching 19~22 meter. Around the world: Regardless of the actual figure, everyone agrees that it is the widest tree on the entire continent. It is so big that there's room enough for a small pub inside.
The world-famous Sunland Baobab's trunk crashed to the ground.
The world-famous Sunland Baobab in Modjadjiskloof, Limpopo, saw a third of its trunk crash to the ground last Thursday.
Sources say the main cause of the tree's split and collapse is its age - dated at over 1100 years old - along with the natural Baobab tendency of hollowing out its trunk as it ages.
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