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Northern Cape Travel
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The Northern Cape is noted for its San rock
art, diamond diggings, 4X4 safaris and the
Kgalagadi
Wildlife Park. It is a vast stretch of semi-desert land. The distance from the
capital,
Kimberley, on the eastern border to Springbok (in the west) is more than 900km.
It is a large,
dry region of fluctuating temperatures and varying topographies. As the most arid part of
South Africa it offers the visitor an experience that is not elsewhere available. |
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Kgalagadi
Transfrontier Park
The Kgalagadi comprises an
area of over 3,6 million hectares - one of the largest
conservation areas in the world. Red sand dunes, sparse
vegetation and the dry riverbeds of the Nossob and Auob show
antelope and predator species off at a premium. |
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Augrabies
Falls National Park
The Khoi people called it ‘Aukoerebis’,
or Place of Great Noise, as this powerful flow of water is
unleashed from rocky surroundings characterized by the 18-km
abyss of the Orange River Gorge. |
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The
Richtersveld National Park
The Richtersveld National
Park is a very good example of one of the most interesting
mega-ecosystems of the world, the succulent Karoo. |
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Upington |
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Bordered by the Kalahari Desert
and the Orange River,
Upington
owes its agricultural prosperity to irrigation.
It is a convenient stopover for those traveling to the Kalahari,
Namaqualand or Namibia to and from Johannesburg and Cape Town. |
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Orange
River
The Orange River,
South Africa`s major river, rises in the Drakensberg from where it
flows westward for some 2200km to where it finally flows into the
Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay in the Northern Cape. |
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The
Kalahari
Kalahari, an area of
never-ending horizons where raptors, soaring high in the cloudless
sky, sometimes cast the only shadows on the red sands. Under its
sands lie incredible mineral riches and another, even more precious
treasure – water, which bursts forth joyously from the earth in
clear cool springs. |
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