Northern Cape Travel Guide

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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.		Accommodation Tourist Regions Game Reserves National Parks Cities/Towns Cultural & Historical Attractions Nature Reserves & Trails Map of the Northern Cape

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.		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.		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.
Top Destinations		Tourist Regions		Upington
Kalahari Upington Colesberg Springbok Kakamas Calvinia Kuruman		Kalahari Region Bo Karoo The Raptor Route The Vaalharts River Valley		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.
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.		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.