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Northern Cape Tourist Attractions
In August and September, the wildflower displays on the Cape West Coast and the in the Northern Cape are considered to be among ..
The winter rains transform Namaqua National Park into shades of pinks, yellows, oranges and just about any colour imaginable ...
S.A.'s vast landscapes are an explorer's paradise, but reaching beautiful spots often requires an off-road vehicle...
Like the flowers in Namaqua National Park, luxury safari tents pop up during spring to charm and delight, before disappearing...
Exploring Wolfberg makes for an excellent day hike, although the route is rather tough. Go with a backpack for the weekend...
Earlier this month I posted about my adventure in the Northern Cape to see the annual floral display mother nature puts...
I’ve been dreaming about seeing the West Coast and Northern Cape flowers for years! Growing up in Jozi’s concrete wonderland...
If you'd enjoy spending a night or two along the Orange River banks, you'd probably be interested in the Namaqua 4x4 Eco-trail...
Travelling on the Rovos Rail means you'll enjoy fine foods and wines, not to mention sleeping compartments fit for royalty...
Calvinia is small. It’s a dusty town ringed by copper mountains and creaky windmills. Once a year, its weathered face blossoms...
A pocket of the arid Northern Cape opens into a generous smile along the Orange River, where more than a hundred islands are ...
The short hiking trails in the Augrabies Falls National Park are an excellent way to explore this bewitching landscape of rocks...
By day, explore the endless shoreline, coves and bays that characterise the coastal section of Namaqua National Park. At night,...
Shaen Adey discovers an irresistible combination - cycling the Richtersveld by the light of the fall moon. I'd been invited to ...
Expectations are everything. Get them wrong and a trip to Kgalagadi, with its extreme weather conditions, great distances, ...
If you are a horse lover, the Saddle Horse Museum in Richmond, Karoo, will have so much of interest, you will spend hours browsing
The Trading Post Padstal in Victoria West is a great pit stop and houses the interesting rugby museum of legend Mannetjies Roux.
Fantastic white water rafting on the mighty Orange River near Hopetown. Camp out on sandy banks after a stunning day on the water.
In spring the MTB trails around Kamieskroon in Namaqualand make you think you have found your way to the Garden of Eden. MTB gem.
Just 10 km south of Kenhardt, on the Brandvlei road, there is a forest of about five thousand amazing quiver trees, in a nature ..
Ouma Miemie’s Farm Stall near Kenhardt is one of those places that is a treat to visit on any road trip. Beautifully decorated ...
There are padstals, and then there is the Pienk Padstal, at the entrance to Kakamas. An amazing pit-stop experience in artistic ..
The Spitskop Nature Reserve, near Upington, is a great place to stay en-route to Kalahari Gemsbok. Cycling, hiking, wildlife ...
The Barkly West Museum is a treasure trove of information about the early history of alluvial diamond mining in South Africa.
Canteen Kopje, south of Barkly West, on the Vaal River, is a site of some of the first alluvial diamond diggings in South Africa.
The mining magnates of Kimberley, fuelled by fabulous wealth from diamonds, left an excellent heritage on display in the Museums.
Vanderkloof Dam is the second largest dam in South Africa and is perfect for angling and most water sports, including sailing ...
Not only is the setting beautiful at the Rooipoort Nature Reserve near Kimberley, it is stocked with wildlife and over 310 bird ..
Kamfer's Dam near Kimberley has 180 recorded birds and is a conservation effort for the Lesser Flamingos. Waders and reed ...
The wild flowers of the Cape West Coast and Namaqualand, in South Africa, are regarded as a botanical wonderland. Tourists ...
It's that cold town with the big telescope, a mere speck in the vast Karoo landscape. Are stargazing and the promise of snow ...
Fly fishing along the banks of the Orange River below the Augrabies Waterfall.
In the fourth article in a series on his Year in the Wild expedition, taking in 31 South African nature reserves, Scott Ramsay ...
Sutherland's environment and history make it one of SA's more interesting dorps. And then, of course, it's the home SALT ...
Buy San arts and crafts or collect a San guide for a guided walking tour - a special and unique South African cultural experience
Transkaroo Adventures Farm near Noupoort offers 4x4, MTB, horse & hiking trails on a large working farm in the heart of the Karoo
Hiking, horse trails, MTB, fishing and birding are on offer at the Karoo Gariep Conservancy near Hanover - home of the Karoo Hippo
Fly De Aar is an accredited paragliding school offering a 10 day course inclusive of accommodation, in the clear blue Karoo skies
The Richtersveld World Heritage Site protects a unique landscape, biome and people. Visit the WHS in your 4x4 and meet the Nama
The Khamkirri Nature Reserve offers many outdoors and adventure activities from white-water rafting to fly-fishing to 4x4 trails
Riemvasmaak offers 3 challenging offroad trails which traverse stark rocky volcanic terrain, dunes and interesting natural areas
Quaint Port Nolloth museums display the history, diamond mining & natural heritage of Port Nolloth and Namaqualand's Diamond Coast
Goegap Nature Reserve offers 15000ha of spring wildflower profusion, bat eared foxes and other small game, eagles and quiver trees
The 3 day Diamond Coast Hiking Trail opens up a pristine area of the north western coastline previously inaccessible to the public
The Kalahari Meerkat Project is not open to the general public - but day visitors are allowed from two local guest establishments
The William Humphreys Art Gallery is one of South Africa's most famous art museums, and includes numerous S. African collections
The Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve has unique flora and fauna, deep ravines, rock art, pools, waterfalls and great hiking trials
Two 4 -5 day hiking trails beckon the serious hiker in the Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve just outside Nieuwoudtville, Northern Cape
The !Xerry Wilderness Trail is a guided walking camp over 2 days and 2 nights near Nossob in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Take Tour of the Milky Way at the Sterland Farm just outside Sutherland. Stars to Midnight is held once a month on New Moon
The most powerful telescope in the Southern Hemisphere collects light from the dazzling Milky Way. Observatory tours are offered
Visit the incredibly deep Boesmansgat, hike, take a photographic safari or a hunting safari at Mount Carmel farm south of Kuruman
One of the most important archeological sites in Southern Africa offers visitors an insight into human lifestyles over millenia
Conservation, research and guest hospitality is taken very seriously at the 100 000ha Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve near Kuruman
Just 35km south of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Kalahari Trails Nature Reserve offers vehicle and foot safaris on the red dunes
Enjoy the attractions, culture, stories, ghosts & history of Kimberley on the various walking tours offered by Kimberley Meander
Kimberley SA Polished Diamonds are a very limited selection of less than 2% of the recovered yield from Kimberley's tailing dumps
There are 158 'verified' haunted homes, buildings, rooms and sites in Kimberley. The night-time Ghost Trail offers ghostly history
At the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre near Kimberley, is an amazing collection of Khoisan rock engravings on their original site.
The Kimberly Big Hole Complex and Mine Museum includes tours underground, exhibits and the largest diamond display in the world.
The 3 day Klipspringer Hiking Trail through the Augrabies National Park is rated moderate to difficult, and is hot but beautiful
The Richtersveld offers unique mountain desert biome, 'half-men' trees, life giving mists, and an incredible endemic biodiversity
The Tourism award-winning Mokala National Park near Kimberley is home to highly endangered Roan Antelope, and Black & White Rhino
De Beers offers 2 half day THETA guided 4x4 Tours into the beautiful, wild and publicly restricted Diamond Coast around Kleinzee
The 74000ha Riemvasmaak Community Conservancy offers outdoors activities, chalets, 4X4, hikes and hot springs near Augrabies Falls
Swift Adventures offer 3-5 hour river rafting trails in inflatable 2 person canoes. Lots of swift, lazy paddling and gentle rapids
Sakkie se Arkie offers 2 hour sunset cruises and booze cruises along the Orange River. Toast the sleep of a blood red Kalahari sun
The Eye of Kuruman is an oasis in the middle of the Kalahari that waters Kuruman and provides a cool lush paradise in Kuruman town
The Kalahari Raptor Rehabilitation Centre in Kuruman rehabilitates injured Raptors and also runs a Cape Vulture breeding programme
Meet the Komani San in the Kgalagadi National Park, stay with them, learn their wisdom and way of life and depart forever changed
The 3.6million ha Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park offers vastness, 4x4 trails, dunes, gemsbok, black-maned lions & raptors
Liquid360 Adventures offers river rafting adventures along the Orange River, taking advantage of spectacular scenery and geology
Die Mas van Kakamas is a farm & vineyard with own deli that offers wine, brandy & coke, braaivleis, boerewors, farm tours...& ice
Imbibe the spirit of the ancient Southern Kalahari and the great Orange River that gives it life and supports over 780 vineyards
The Augrabies Rush white water river rafting experience is a raft of an 8km stretch of the Orange River to the Augrabies Falls
Felix Unite offer various canoe trails along the great Orange River as it flows through the magnificent Northern Cape Richtersveld
South Africa's largest dam, the Gariep Dam is a water and aerial sports mecca that lies across Eastern Cape and Free State border
The Mountain Desert Tour is an off-road experience with a difference. The trail itself is quite gentle and carves its way ...
The Papkuilsfontein trail carves its way through the breathtaking scenery of the Bokveldsberg. The sheer drops at the edge of ...
Loch Maree offers two trails, a 50 km self-drive trail and a 100km guided trail. The shorter option is predominately on sand ...
On Transboegoe Farm, which borders Kalahari Witsand Nature Reserve, there's a 4x4er's paradise. With more than 100 km of off-road
The remote, arid and stony Tankwa Karoo offers a birding list of 174 species, of which 18 are endemics. The spectacular scenery ..
A biodiversity hotspot, the remote, arid and stony Tankwa Karoo offers a birding list of 174 species, of which 18 are endemics.
Groen Spoeg is a wilderness camping experience second-to-none in the Namaqua National Park, one of the wildest places...
Nieuwoudtville, the 'bulb capital of the world,' is expecting a blooming good floral display this season
For decades the Tankwa Karoo National Park south of Calvinia was more or less off-limits to visitors while the veld was given ...
In August and September, the wildflower displays on the Cape West Coast and the Northern Cape are considered to be among the ...
The Tankwa Karoo National Park protects one of the most beautiful parts of the unique Tankwa Karoo in South Africa.
Wander through the edge of the cold Atlantic and meander through misty dunes in the Namaqua National Park.
Namqualand is the richest bulb flora region in the world. Found in Northern Cape, South Africa, it is a magnet for flower lovers.
Goegap Nature Reserve in the Namaqualand becomes a riot of flowers from August to October, attracting many opportunistic species
On the shores of the Orange River on BirdLife South Africa's Richtersveld Birding Route live a myriad of spectacular birds.
On the border of South Africa and Namibia is a transfrontier park that could be mistaken for the end of the world.
The Augrabies Falls National park covers a large area of land on both banks of the Orange River, completely surrounding the falls.
The Hantam National Botanical Floral Garden at Nieuwoudtville is South Africa's ninth national botanical garden famed for the ...
Just north of Nieuwoudtville, the Doring River drops some hundred metres into a deep rock pool. This is pleasant spot to enjoy ...
The Niewoudtville Birding Route is a favourite on BirdLife South Africa's birding list as the area is famous for its wild flowers.
Endless fields of orange and yellow Namaqualand daisies, gazanias and pale blue or purple dainty flowers had brought us, like ...
The heat was already starting to put a shimmering haze onto the horizon and it was only nine in the morning....
The vast, silent Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, declared in 1990, is one of the last conservation areas of this scale in the world....