The Northern Cape is a land of many diverse cultures, of frontier history and brave missionaries. It also has countless challenges for the adrenaline junkies, hikers, hunters and 4x4 adventurers.

It has impressive parks with endless game and one of the most unique flora in the world. And yet many would-be-travelers to this province ask what can we do, what can we see?

This quick guide to the most unique or worth seeing and doing things in the 5 regions of the Northern Cape  will help you to find some of its most worthwhile treasures.

Throughout the Northern Cape

4x4 trails and challenges Enjoy the wide open spaces and sometimes challenging terrain

Faithful Missions The first missionaries were adventurers in their own right

For the love of Country The Anglo-Boer War battlefields route

Much more than flowers a rich and rare plantlife has adapted to the harsh climate

Diamond fields Region

Kimberley Big Hole and Mine Museum This, the most visited tourist attraction in the Northern Cape, has undergone a major revamp.

The Belgravia Historic Walk, Kimberley Two kilometres of historic sites and statley Victorian homes.

Legends of Kimberley Numerous locals have helped to shape South Africa, let us introduce to you some of these people.

The Vaalharts Valley Visit one of the world’s largest irrigation schemes that waters over 1000 farms

Karoo Region

Karoo Architecture An architecture born out of necssity

Khoisan Rock Art be on the lookout throughout the Karoo

Vanderkloof Dam resort, nature reserve and a marvellous engineering feat

Namakwa Region

|Ai|Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park southern Africa’s surrealistic mountain desert

Much more than flowers a rich and rare plantlife has adapted to the harsh climate

Copper and Diamonds routes along mines of old and present day

South African Astronomical Observatory the sky’s the limit

Green Kalahari Region

Augrabies Falls National Park the world’s sixth largest waterfall

Riemvasmaak - A Community Restored a community run mountain desert wilderness and hot spring

The Red Dune Route warm hospitality in a remote desert area

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park a 3.7 million hectare unspoilt ecosystem

The Orange River Wine Cellars the largest co-op wine cellars in the country

Kalahari Region

The Roaring Kalahari Route adventure on the backroads of the Kalahari

From Beneath the Surface gaping holes, mammoth trucks and colossal machinery

The Eye of Kuruman the largest spring in the southern hemisphere brings relief to the desert

Hunters’ Paradise game farms are plentiful in number and stock