Places to visit in Northern Cape, South Africa
8 places to visit in Northern Cape, South Africa, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Khomani Cultural Landscape, Richtersveld, Big Hole, Kimberley and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Northern Cape volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 1 Famous place to visit · 5 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Northern Cape (2)
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Khomani Cultural Landscape
A stretch of red Kalahari dunes in the far north of the Northern Cape, home to the Khomani San people. It was listed by UNESCO in 2017 for the way their culture, language and knowledge of the desert have continued through generations.
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Richtersveld
A rugged desert landscape of mountains and dry gorges in the far north west, in a bend of the Orange River on the Namibian border. Nama herders still move their livestock seasonally here, and the Richtersveld was listed by UNESCO as a cultural landscape in 2007.
Famous places to visit in Northern Cape (1)
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Big Hole, Kimberley
A huge hand dug diamond mine in the middle of Kimberley, worked from 1871 until 1914 by thousands of diggers using picks and shovels. It is about 215 metres deep and holds a green pool of water, with a mining museum and a replica town beside it.
Hidden gems in Northern Cape (5)
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Augrabies Falls
A waterfall on the Orange River in the Northern Cape, where the river drops about 56 metres into a granite gorge some 240 metres deep. It lies inside Augrabies Falls National Park, and the name comes from a Khoikhoi word for the place of great noise.
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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
A vast park of red dunes and dry riverbeds on the border with Botswana, where South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park joins Botswana's Gemsbok National Park. It is known for black maned lions, cheetahs, gemsbok, and camps along the Nossob and Auob river beds.
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Mokala National Park
A reserve of 26,485 hectares in the Plooysburg area southwest of Kimberley, established on 19 June 2007. Mokala is the Setswana name for the camel thorn tree, and the park protects rare antelope such as roan and sable.
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Namaqua National Park
A national park on the Atlantic edge of Namaqualand, in a biodiversity hotspot with the largest concentration of succulent plants in the world. In spring the dry land is covered by wildflowers.
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Southern African Large Telescope
The largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a mirror 11 metres across, on a dry hill near Sutherland in the Karoo. It began work in 2005 and the site has tours by day and stargazing events in the dark night sky.
Collecting in Northern Cape
What are the best places to visit in Northern Cape?
LOQAH lists 8 places in Northern Cape. The best known include Khomani Cultural Landscape, Richtersveld, Big Hole, Kimberley, Augrabies Falls and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Northern Cape?
8, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Northern Cape?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Northern Cape before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Northern Cape and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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