This area of the Northern Cape province is truly the heart of the Kalahari. Here you will experience red sand dunes and dry riverbeds, wide open skies and flat-topped acacia trees that symbolise the Kalahari Red Dune Route.
The mighty Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Africa’s first transfrontier park, comprises almost 3.7-million hectares of sparsely vegetated red sand dunes and dry riverbeds. It remains one of the world’s last truly unspoilt ecosystems. The park is the result of the unification of South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park. The reserve provides a sanctuary for herds of gemsbok, springbok, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, eland, lion, leopard, cheetah and smaller game.
There are also six upmarket unfenced wilderness camps that allow visitors to feel at one with the Kalahari. The Kalahari Tented Camp has 15 fully equipped self-catering units, sleeping two to four people, and a swimming pool. The camp overlooks a waterhole on the ancient Auob River. The Grootkolk Wilderness Camp is small and exclusive, only 20km from Union’s End (this is the area where the Nossob River crosses from Namibia into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park).
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Maropeng, which means ‘returning to the place of origin’ in Setswana, the native language spoken in the area, is the official visitor centre for the Cradle of Humankind and therefore the gateway to the World Heritage Site. Apart from being an official country getaway (as a visitor centre) for the family, the centre offers boutique and separate kiddies’ or student accommodation,
Housing the largest and some of the oldest scientific collections in the southern hemisphere, the Museum is currently undergoing extensive renovations that will enable unique public viewing of the collections, scientists and specimen preparators.
This natural World Heritage Site and home to one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature is a haven of magnificent mountains plunging into crystal seas fringed with the white sands of the Cape Peninsula. The park stretches from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south, and is also home to the world’s smallest, yet most diverse, floral
