Camel and Rider Statue
About 2 km (1 mile) from the Kalahari-Oranje Museum, in front of the Upington police station, this bronze monument honors the police who used camels as mounts when they patrolled the Kalahari in frontier days. If this rather lonely sight is in any way intriguing, you may want to plan a visit to the Camel Farm ( camelmilksouthafrica.co.za) in a breathtakingly remote Kalahari location about 90 minutes from the Twee Rivieren entrance to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Its dairy farmer will introduce you to his gentle, free-roaming, long-eyelashed camels, and his herd is entirely descended from the first camels brought here for police and military use.
