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Home to the ancient San people, the Northern Cape is about wide-open spaces, an utterly beautiful coastline and a number of unique national parks offering the tourist a very different experience of the South African landscape. The area is also noted for the innumerable examples of Bushman rock art, enormous deposits pf precious and semi-prrecious stones and perhaps best of all, the warmth and homespun hospitality of its people.

The Northern Cape boasts a colourful history and a variety of cultural tourist attractions and is particularly well known for its incredible annual floral display that takes place in Namaqualand.

Apart from a narrow strip of winter-rainfall area along the coast, the Northern Cape is a semi-arid region with little rainfall in summer. The weather conditions are extreme cold and frosty in winter, and extremely high temperatures in summer. Sutherland, in the Hantam Karoo, is one of the coldest towns in southern Africa with an average winter minimum is -6º Celsius. In winter, snow often blankets its surrounding mountains.

If it were not for the Orange River the region may well have remained bleak and barren, populated
in days gone bye by nomadic Bushman hunters and Nama Hottentot herders.

The mighty river swollen by its principle tributary, the Vaal surges erratically across the landscape, sometimes in a sluggish tide, at other places in awesome, powerful exuberance, eight kilometres wide.

Kimberley is located along the banks of the Orange and Vaal Rivers is the capitol of the Northern Province

During the 19th century thousands of adventurers converged on this region, lured by the famulous wealth beneath the ground.

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