Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the most arid part of South Africa and it offers the visitor an experience that is unique. San rock art, Kimberly diamond diggings, incredible 4X4 safaris and the Kgalagadi Wildlife Park. It is a vast stretch of semi-desert land , an area of more than 900km, large and dry with fluctuating temperatures and varying topographies
Kalahari Region
The sun-drenched Kalahari is an often forgotten corner of South Africa. Its
vast, ancient landscape undulates misty horizons that remember the beginning of
time.
Northern Cape - Kuruman
Bo Karoo
Windpumps stand as lone sillouetted sentinels as the end of another day brings
about a breathtaking explosion of orange, red and gold.
Northern Cape - Colesberg
The Raptor Route
The Northern Cape is the ideal place for bird watching, but more specifically so
for Raptor watching. The Raptor Route has been developed, with information
offices across the region, to assist you on your quest.
Northern Cape - Upington
The Vaalharts River Valley
The area is classified as open Savanna Kalahari thornveld with characteristic
camelthorn trees in abundance. Shrubs and trees indigenous to the area are
various Acacia trees.
Northern Cape - Kimberley
Danielskuil
Part of a Griqua missionary and of historical importance, a geological phenomena
in the form of deep cavity was formed in the dolomite limestone.
Northern Cape - Danielskuil
Griekwastad
Griekwastad is situated in the Northern Cape, between Kimberley and Upington. It
is by far de best crossing point on your tour between the other provinces and
the world famous Witsand Nature Reserve
Northern Cape - Griekwastad
Kimberley - Mine Museum
The Kimberley Mine Museum is situated next to the Big Hole and houses the first
recorded diamond discovery.
Northern Cape - Kimberley
Kimberley - Museums and Historic Places
A trendsetter in many ways, various memorials and national monuments in
Kimberley remind us of these historic firsts - like being the the first city in
the Southern Hemisphere to install electric street lighting, the first in South
Africa to switch to an
Northern Cape - Kimberley
Orange River
The Orange River, South Africa`s major river, rises in the Drakensberg in
Lesotho from where it flows westward for some 2200km to where it finally flows
into the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay.
Northern Cape - Colesberg
Moffat Mission
The Kuruman mission has a long and interesting history. Due to the focus upon
literacy, bible translation and the presence of the printing press, education
became the primary task of the Mission.
Northern Cape - Kuruman
Colesberg
Colesberg is a traveller`s oasis on the main Cape Town-Johannesburg route, the
N1, offering many attractive accommodation establishments and entertaining,
educational distractions.
Northern Cape - Colesberg
Historical Sites of the Northern Cape
The Northern Cape landscape is characterized by vast arid plains with
outcroppings of haphazard rock piles and a land of many diverse cultures and of
frontier history
Northern Cape - Kimberley
Game Reserves & Trails
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
One of Africa's great parks. The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
and Gemsbok National Park (Botswana) have been formed into a transfrontier park
of over 3,6 million ha. A rugged wildlife sanctuary with 3 rest camps &
abundance of game.
Northern Cape - Kgalagadi
Klipspringer Hiking Trail
37km or 3 days from the Augrabies Falls , along the Oranje River and over a
remarkable array of rock formations and potholes within the Augrabies Falls
National Park. Closed October to March due to heat.
Northern Cape - Kakamas
Northern Cape 4x4 Trails
A summary of various 4x4 trails in the Northern Cape.
Northern Cape - Upington
Augrabies Falls National Park
Situated about 120 km west of Upington on the Orange River, units with picnic
site and braai facilities, air-conditioning, a shop, a bar, restaurant,
cafeteria, information centre, petrol and diesel pumps, laundry, public
telephones, 3 swimming pools.
Northern Cape - Kakamas
Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier National
Park
An arid mountainous wilderness with splendid scenery, rugged kloofs, high
mountains and dramatic landscapes crossing 2 countries on both sides of the
Orange River.
Northern Cape - Richtersveld
Namaqua National Park
Namaqualand is home to the richest bulb flora of any arid region in the world
and more than a 1 000 of its estimated 3 500 plant species are found nowhere
else on earth. It is also renowned for its annual mass display of wild flowers
in spring.
Northern Cape - Kamieskroon
Witsand Nature Reserve
This reserve in the Kalahari is spectacular, as it is a 2500 ha island of
dazzling white sand encircled by the sea of conventional Kalahari red sand.
Northern Cape - Postmasburg
Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
Situated in the Kalahari desert, Tswalu is SA's largest privately owned game
reserve - malaria free - on 100,000 ha. Lodge is surrounded by 8 thatch & stone
suites with aircon, lounge, fire place and sundeck.
Northern Cape - Kuruman
Kalahari Raptor Centre
Situated on a 600 hectare private game reserve, the Kalahari Raptor Centre
function is to care for injured and orphaned birds of prey, predators and small
mammals. The Centre offers offer intimate accommodation for a limited number of
guests.
Northern Cape - Kuruman
Tours & Safaris